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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Unable to start a guest in Xen 4.0.1-rc5-pre
 
> My questions is - Is there a step by step instructions somewhere on how 
to run a     simple guest (both paravirtualized - for linux and hvm - for 
Windows) for Xen 4.0? Preferebly I would like to install fresh guest OS 
from an install CD. 
  View :- Update 07/26/2010 . Set up opensuse 11.3 PV DomU at Xen 4.0.1-rc4 & 
2.6.32.16-1.2.108.xendom0.fc13.x86_64 Dom0 on top of F13
  http://www.linuxtoday.com/high_performance/2010072200535OSSVSW
  Boris. P.S. Syntax for HVM virt-install may be viewed at RH's manuals
  --- On Sun, 7/25/10, Jonathan White <jonxwhite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  From: Jonathan White <jonxwhite@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [Xen-devel] Unable to start a guest in Xen 4.0.1-rc5-pre To: Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Sunday, July 25, 2010, 10:17 PM
 
 Hello again,
  Quick recap: I have a working Xen 4.0.1-rc5-pre booting smoothly on x86_64 on a FC12 Linux platfrom. xend starts automatically and xm list shows the Dom0. I disabled selinux by adding selinux=0 in the kernel line in grub.conf for the Xen kernel. 
 Now I would like to run a simple guest domain (Linux or Windows). Ideally I would like to install a fresh HVM domain (preferably Windows XP)  I have been trying to start a simple guest but have been unsuccessful so far. The examples in the user.pdf document is Xen 3.3 based and assumes the presence of a /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-domU kernel image which does not get built in Xen 4.0. 
 I unsucessfully tried the following: 1. I created a 8GB empty disk image using dd (see below) and tried to install a WinXP from a CD, using xm create. The guest domain started but stopped after a few seconds. I took xmexample.hvm in /etc/xen as baseline and edited it.  
dd if=/dev/zero of=winxp.img bs=1M count=0 seek=8192 2. Same as above, but with Linux FC11 x86_64 CD. 3. I used xmexample1 and tried to launch the vmlinuz-2.6.31.13 that gets built as part of Xen make in /boot. But that too failed to start. 
 My questions is - Is there a step by step instructions somewhere on how to run a simple guest (both paravirtualized - for linux and hvm - for Windows) for Xen 4.0? Preferebly I would like to install fresh guest OS from an install CD.  
I know I haven't provided any logs or specific errors, but I can do so if you can share which logs would be interesting.
  Thanks a lot, Jon
 
  
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