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Re: [Xen-users] xen on SMP

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 12:34 +0530, Sweekar Pinto wrote:
> I'm on ther verge of giving up...
> Am I doing something wrong here? here are the steps I followed to  get
> xen running on an HP Proliant DL360 4 CPU  system. :
> 
> *Native kernel  2.6.11.x  (FC4)
> 
> * Downloaded xen-unstable sources and compiled an SMP enabled kernel
> (cause the default xen kernels that came with FC4 just gave up before
> boot....phooofff...it just reboots the system after splashing the grub
> screen!)
> * dom0 booted fine 
> * xend start gave the following error but was up and running :
> 
>    # xend start
> error connecting to xcs(ctrl)! (2)
>  Exception in thread ChannelFactory:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/threading 
> .py", line 442, in __bootstrap
>     self.run()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/threading.py", line 422, in run
>     self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/channel.py",
> line 185, in main
>     port = self.notifier.read()
> IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
> .....
>  again... it's not predictable.. sometimes it gives this error
> sometimes it doesnt!
> 
> * tried booting a VBD domain which worked fine on a UP box but failed
> on the SMP box
>   my config file looks like:
>   
>   kernel ="/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-xenU"
>   memory = 256
>   name = "rhas"
>   nics = 1 
>   disk = ['file:/root/rhas.img,sda1,w']
>   root = "/dev/sda1"
>   extra = "ro selinux=0 3"
> 
> * Also tried the yum base install which is mentioned in the fedora
> Quickstart guide... but the domain wont start.
> 
> * all my attempts in creating any domain results in the following
> error:
>   
>   # xm create -c rhas
>      Using config file "/etc/xen/rhas".
>      Error: Error creating domain: (14, 'Bad address')
> 
> * I have tried creating suse,FC and RHAS domains but all resulted in
> the same error.
> 
> ...... Is there something that I'm doing wrong here?
> 
> -Sweekar
> 

Post your domU config for starters.

One of the recent changesets appears to be toasted for one user anyway,
check the dev archive for more details.

Regards,
Ted


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