Hello, people.
I've been trying for the past few days to get Xen working on Gentoo,
still no success.
I already have a dom0 kernel working, but can't get domU guests to
boot. I got installed:
sys-kernel/xen-sources-2.6.18-r12
app-emulation/xen-tools-3.4.2
app-emulation/xen-3.4.2
The dom0 kernel is 2.6.18-r12 (the recommended). For the domU, I tried
both the same and the latest gentoo-sources, but neither of them
works.
According to /var/log/xen/xend.log, there seems to be a problem with
hotplug scripts. I don't know the internals of Xen, so I'm not sure if
this is a udev issue, or something within /etc/xen/scripts
Anyway, here's the script for the domU guest I'm trying to run:
name = "tidus";
memory = 1024;
kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-domU";
disk = [ 'phy:machines/tidus.system,xvda1,w',
'phy:machines/tidus.swap,xvda2,w' ];
root = "/dev/xvda1 ro";
Pretty basic. For the disk, I've tried both phy:machines/tidus.system
and phy:/dev/machines/tidus-system, they both fail exactly the same.
When I try to 'xm create -c' the vm, I get these in xend.log:
[2009-12-19 18:02:59 2905] DEBUG (DevController:139) Waiting for devices vif.
[2009-12-19 18:02:59 2905] DEBUG (DevController:139) Waiting for devices vkbd.
[2009-12-19 18:02:59 2905] DEBUG (DevController:139) Waiting for
devices ioports.
[2009-12-19 18:02:59 2905] DEBUG (DevController:139) Waiting for devices tap.
[2009-12-19 18:02:59 2905] DEBUG (DevController:139) Waiting for
devices console.
[2009-12-19 18:02:59 2905] DEBUG (DevController:144) Waiting for 0.
[2009-12-19 18:02:59 2905] DEBUG (DevController:139) Waiting for devices vscsi.
[2009-12-19 18:02:59 2905] DEBUG (DevController:139) Waiting for devices vbd.
[2009-12-19 18:02:59 2905] DEBUG (DevController:144) Waiting for 51713.
[2009-12-19 18:02:59 2905] DEBUG (DevController:629)
hotplugStatusCallback
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/4/51713/hotplug-status.
It then stops there for some time, and finally gives up and destroys
the vm. xm create gets the error: "Error: Device 51713 (vbd) could
not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working."
The rest in xend.log is just some messages destroying and releasing resources.
I can mount the lvm device without a problem (installed Gentoo on it
by mounting on /mnt/gentoo).
Dom0 kernel is working fine, all hardware is fine. I have the relevant
sections turned on (backend stuff for dom0 and frontend stuff for
domU).
>From the udev rules (/etc/udev/rules.d/xen-backend.rules), I see that
for the "vbd" devices, it should be calling /etc/xen/scripts/block:
SUBSYSTEM=="xen-backend", KERNEL=="vbd*", RUN+="/etc/xen/scripts/block
$env{ACTION}"
However, I edited this file and put a simple "echo" in the beginning,
and it seems udev is not calling this script.
I googled a lot, searched a lot, but still can't get this to work. I'm
using this list as a last resort :)
This is a clean install of Gentoo, using profile
hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib, if it makes a difference. My
CFLAGS: "-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=nocona
-mno-tls-direct-seg-refs -pipe"
Anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks!
--
Bruno Lustosa <br...@lustosa.net>
http://www.lustosa.net/
