Hi, Ben wrote:
> I'm currently running RHEL 5.1 64-bit fully patched and kernel > 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen on a Sun x4200 M2 (8GB, 4 cores). I am attempting > to install RHEL 4.6 32-bit (kernel 2.6.9-67xen) as a paravirtualised guest. I recently stumbled upon the same issue, using a RHEL 5.1 64-bit dom0 (running on a Dell PE 1850), and RHEL 4.6 32-bit as domU. I tried installing using virt-install and a kickstart file. I'm afraid this is why running a 32-bit domU on 64-bit dom0 is a "technology preview" (see release notes)... as I had limited time, I just went ahead with a 32-bit dom0, that worked fine. > Within the RHEL5 Dom0 I start the guest using "xm create -c template" > and the below configuration file. [...] > Every time I try the install manually (I haven't figured out Xen > kickstarting yet, suggestions on how to provide a kickstart file to the > DomU please?) I whistle through the setup screens and then let the I'm using something similar to (fill in the dots): virt-install --name=test32 --nographics --paravirt --ram=512 --file=/dev/vg0/test --location=http://.../ --extra-args=ks=http://.../ks.cfg (fill in your --name, --file, --location and kickstart-file) The kickstart file itself, is roughly: install reboot --eject text url --url http://.../ lang en_US.UTF-8 langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us network --device eth0 --onboot yes --bootproto static --ip ... --netmask ... --gateway ... --nameserver ... --hostname ... rootpw --iscrypted $1$... firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 selinux --enforcing timezone Europe/Amsterdam bootloader --location=mbr zerombr yes clearpart --all part / --fstype ext3 --size=100 --grow part swap --fstype swap --recommended #%packages --resolvedeps --nobase %packages --resolvedeps @base %post ( cat > /sbin/ifup-local << EOF #!/bin/sh ethtool -K \${1} tx off EOF chmod a+x /sbin/ifup-local rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY /usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks --nohardware --activationkey=... up2date -uf ) 1>/root/post_install.log 2>&1 (My kickstart includes a RHN registration using an activation key, and the ifup-local script, that does a ethtool -K eth0 tx off, as that is apparently necessary for traffic between domU's.) > installation start the package installation, at which point it slows to > a crawl or even stops on a package with the status "Installing...". The > web server is definitely not overloaded as I've kickstarted ten RHEL5 > boxes before now concurrently with no slowdown. Same here, > However the worst is yet to come... Usually after a little while of > installing the RHEL4 kernel panics and I'm dumped back out to Dom0. > I've tried this with the previous RHEL 4.5 media (copied to the web > server) too. It tends to fail earlier. > > Here's the most recent error during text-mode installation: Similar here: > Oops: 0000 [#1] [...] > Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception > > All of my xen stuff appears to be at version 3.0.3-41. Does anyone have > any suggestions what I'm doing wrong or what is happening, please? Not much help, but I can at least confirm this issue ;-) Paul _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
