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RE: [Xen-users] Fully virtualized guest boot problem

To: "Abhishek Gaurav" <gaurav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Fully virtualized guest boot problem
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:57:00 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Abhishek Gaurav
> Sent: 12 February 2007 14:46
> To: Petersson, Mats
> Cc: anant; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Fully virtualized guest boot problem
> 
> Petersson, Mats wrote:
> >  
> >
> >   
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> >> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of anant
> >> Sent: 12 February 2007 13:02
> >> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Fully virtualized guest boot problem
> >>
> >>
> >> I got the similar problem with FC6 and Xen 3.0.3.Finally i 
> >> had to change the
> >> disto which worked quite well for me. So try your best to 
> >> work out, if it
> >> doesnt then i would suggest you to move on with OpenSuSE10.2 
> >> which is really
> >> stable in getting windows or linux based guest OS on top of Xen
> >>     
> >
> > However, I doubt that the distribution is really the 
> problem here, it's
> > most likely the fact that FC and OpenSuSE are using 
> slightly different
> > versions of Xen, and thus works differently. 
> >
> > I'm pretty sure the actual base-distribution is (pretty 
> much) irrelevant
> > - there are some obscure cases, but in general it's not an issue. 
> >
> > I don't see anything wrong in the configuration or the log 
> messages. Are
> > you running Intel or AMD processor?
> >
> >   
> 
> Hi Mats,
> I am running on an AMD64 processor. Could that be the reason for this 
> problem ? 

I don't know - because I don't really know what's going on in your
guest, and unfortunatley, it can be VERY hard to figure out without
modifying the Xen-kernel to output extra messages... 

And some problems are common between Intel and AMD, others only occur on
one or the other. 

> I haven't tried it on an Intel machine.
> So, similar to Anant, do you also suggest to try OpenSuse 
> instead FC6 ?

As to changing distro, I don't believe that's the right way to go about
the problem - unless there's OTHER compelling reasons to change distro.
The side-effect of changing from one distro to another is that you get a
different version of Xen kernel. Since that's PROBABLY going to solve
your problem, I would suggest that you try the Xen-3.0.4-1 release from
xensource.com. That's a lot newer than FC6 uses - not sure what OpenSuSE
10.2 uses... 

--
Mats

> 
> Thanks,
> Abhishek.
> 
> > --
> > Mats
> >   
> >> All the Best
> >> Anant
> >>
> >> Abhishek Gaurav wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I am new to Xen and I am trying to start a fully 
> >>>       
> >> virtualized machine on 
> >>     
> >>> an AMD64 base system running FC6. I have an FC2 image for 
> >>>       
> >> booting the 
> >>     
> >>> guests. I get the following problem when the VM starts 
> booting. The 
> >>> status of the VM as seen from xm list is 'running' forever.
> >>>
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44) HVM Loader
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44) Detected Xen v3.0.3-rc3-1.2798.f
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44) Writing SMBIOS tables ...
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44) Loading ROMBIOS ...
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44) Loading Cirrus VGABIOS ...
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44) SVM go ...
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44)  rombios.c,v 1.138 2005/05/07 15:55:26 
> >>>       
> >> vruppert Exp $
> >>     
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44) VGABios $Id: vgabios.c,v 1.61 
> 2005/05/24 16:50:50 
> >>> vruppert Exp $ (XEN) (GUEST: 44) HVMAssist BIOS, 1 cpu, 
> >>>       
> >> $Revision: 1.138 
> >>     
> >>> $ $Date: 2005/05/07 15:55:26 $
> >>>
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44)
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44) ata0-0: PCHS=12292/16/32 translation=none
> >>> LCHS=1024/16/32
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44) ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 
> >>>       
> >> Hard-Disk (3073 MBytes)
> >>     
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44) ata0  slave: Unknown device
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44)
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44) Booting from Hard Disk...
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44) int13_harddisk: function 41, unmapped 
> >>>       
> >> device for ELDL=81
> >>     
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44) int13_harddisk: function 08, unmapped 
> >>>       
> >> device for ELDL=81
> >>     
> >>> (XEN) (GUEST: 44) *** int 15h function AX=00C0, BX=0000 not 
> >>>       
> >> yet supported!
> >>     
> >>> My config file looks like this:
> >>> name = "grc59"
> >>> builder = "hvm"
> >>> memory = "1024"
> >>> disk = [ 'file:/root/guestos/fc2_86_64/hd.img,ioemu:hda,w', ]
> >>> vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=00:16:3e:1b:ce:29, bridge=xenbr0', ]
> >>> uuid = "76e3de0e-8e6f-656c-4e06-62752c2b6641"
> >>> device_model = "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
> >>> kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> >>> nographic=1
> >>> apic=1
> >>> acpi=1
> >>> pae=1
> >>> boot='c'
> >>>
> >>> vcpus=1
> >>> serial = "pty" # enable serial console
> >>> on_reboot   = 'restart'
> >>> on_crash    = 'restart'
> >>>
> >>> Can anybody please let me know what is that I am doing wrong?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Abhishek.
> >>>
> >>>
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