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Re: [Xen-devel] VM-Tools 0.0.2

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 09:16, Adam Sulmicki wrote:
> there was another problem that I realized once I went to home last night.
> I was using kernel from xen-2.x. once I changed the 2.6.9 to 2.6.10 it
> appers to boot
>
> # vm-create /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-xenU -m 96 -C "root=/dev/hda1 ro"
> --attach-vif=aa:00:00:02:00:00 -B 0707:0301


Try adding "w" to your block device, so:    -B 0707:0301,w

See if that helps.

Thanks,

Dan


> Configuring device
> VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
>   Loaded kernel: c0100000->c03596c4
>   Init. ramdisk: c035a000->c035a000
>   Phys-Mach map: c035a000->c0372000
>   Page tables:   c0372000->c0374000
>   Start info:    c0374000->c0375000
>   Boot stack:    c0375000->c0376000
>   TOTAL:         c0000000->c0400000
>   ENTRY ADDRESS: c0100000
>   VCPUS:         1
> # vm-console 5
> Opening console for Domain-5. Use Ctrl-] to exit.
> Linux version 2.6.10-xenU (adam@redbull-ten) (gcc version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5
> 20040809)) #1 Fri Feb 18 15:37:30 MST 2005
> [blah blah bah, fsck failed]
> Give root password for login:
>
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Adam Sulmicki wrote:
> >> FWIW, I grabbed vm-tools-20050220, then I tried to run it with console
> >> output
> >
> > Great :-)
> >
> >> # vm-create -c /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-xenU -m 96 -C "/dev/hda1 ro"
> >> --attach-vif=aa:00:00:02:00:00 -B 0707:0301
> >> vm-create: invalid option -- c
> >> Try `vm-create --help' for more information.
> >>
> >> so I removed "-c" and tried again
> >
> > Yes.  I removed support for '-c' in vm-create in favor of doing it at the
> > vm script level.  It just doesn't make sense for vm-create to be exec()
> > another process.
> >
> >> # losetup /dev/loop7 -o  131604480 /usr/src/cm/root/./suse-uml.img
> >> # ls -l /dev/loop7 /dev/hda1
> >> brw-rw----  1 root disk 3, 1 Dec  3 11:50 /dev/hda1
> >> brw-rw----  1 root disk 7, 7 Dec  3 11:50 /dev/loop7
> >>
> >> # vm-create /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-xenU -m 96 -C "/dev/hda1 ro"
> >> --attach-vif=aa:00:00:02:00:00 -B 0707:0301
> >
> > You're missing the "root=" part of the command line.  It should be:
> >
> > # vm-create /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-xenU -m 96 -C "root=/dev/hda1 ro"
> > --attach-vif=aa:00:00:02:00:00 -B 0707:0301
> >
> >> Configuring device
> >> VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
> >>  Loaded kernel: c0100000->c03784e0
> >>  Init. ramdisk: c0379000->c0379000
> >>  Phys-Mach map: c0379000->c0391000
> >>  Page tables:   c0391000->c0394000
> >>  Start info:    c0394000->c0395000
> >>  Boot stack:    c0395000->c0396000
> >>  TOTAL:         c0000000->c0800000
> >>  ENTRY ADDRESS: c0100000
> >>  VCPUS:         1
> >
> > This means your system started up properly.  While I do not like the fact
> > that libxc dumps out to stdout a lot I have to admit it's very useful :-)
> >
> >> # vm-list
> >>         Name            Status  Memory
> >>         Domain-0        -----r  256MB
> >>         Domain-1        -s----  96MB
> >>         Domain-2        -s----  96MB
> >>         Domain-3        -s----  96MB
> >> # vm-console 3
> >> Opening console for Domain-3. Use Ctrl-] to exit.
> >
> > I very recently fixed the buffering problems in vm-console.   They
> > probably didn't make the last release.  I'm planning on updating latest
> > this evening. vm-console was accidently flushing the tty when it opened
> > it up.  The output you should be seeing is a VFS error from the kernel.
> >
> > Regards,
>
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