On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Leandro Pereira de Lima e Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sander, > > That's what I did: > - I was trying to create a virtual machine with hardy on it (hardy on the > host too) using xen-create-image. > - xen-tools isn't coming with hooks for installing hardy (I've already > filled a bug report about that), so I tried symlinking hardy.d to edgy.d > just like the symlinks from feisty.d and gutsy.d. > - Runned: xen-create-image --force --fs ext3 --image-dev > /dev/group/volume_root --memory 512 --passwd --swap-dev > /dev/group/volume_swap --dist hardy --mirror > http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu --gateway gateway_ip_addr --ip ip_addr > --netmask netmask_addr --hostname hostname_addr, where "group/volume_root", > "group/volume_swap", "gateway_ip_addr", "ip_addr", "netmask_addr", > "hostname_addr" are actually other things that I've changed to get some > privacy. > - Tried to boot, but initramfs can't find the root. > - Fixed a few things on the configuration file generated by xen-create-image > (tried different combinations, this is how it ended): > - Add "root = '/dev/sda2 ro'" after the memory line. > - Fixed the disk section that just contained "',sda1,w'," inside of it, > at the end it became: > disk = [ 'phy:group/volume_swap,sda1,w', > 'phy:group/volume_root,sda2,w' ] > - Add "xenblk" to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and recreated the initrd > file. (the same as the above item, what seemd to work after a few > tentatives) > - Runned xm create -c hostname_addr > - Machine starts to boot and hangs at: > * Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [ > OK ] > > - Switched to gutsy (in xen-create-image), thinking that maybe it hangs > because of some new hook needed for hardy. > - Got the same problem that I had with hardy. > > The LVM group and the volumes existed previously, the machine is an Athlon > 64 X2 with 3.5gb of ram. I'm using a custom linux kernel version 2.6.24.3 > based on the available source for 2.6.24-12-xen. Tried also using the > official kernel (2.6.24-12-xen) with the original initrd but failed on the > initrd problem that I described above, tried it with a new initrd and it got > stuck in the same "Running local boot scripts [ OK ]" as above. > > I'm using xen-tools version 3.8-4ubuntu2 and xen-hypervisor-3.2 version > 3.2.0-0ubuntu9. > > I tried to cover every aspect that may be relevant to the setup, please tell > me if I've missed anything. > >
try hda instead of sda. Also there are some bugs on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen-3.2/+bugs that have at least workarounds for many of the problems that I ran into initially. Todd > Cheers, Leandro. > > > 2008/4/2, Sander van Vugt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've done some, don't know if I can help, but tell us some more about the > issues you're having. > > > > Sander van Vugt > > > > > > Leandro Pereira de Lima e Silva schreef: > > > > > > > Is anyone here using Xen (3.2) on Hardy? I'm having some problems with a > machine created using xen-tools and I would like discuss that. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > -- > > > Leandro Pereira de Lima e Silva > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Leandro Pereira de Lima e Silva > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam > -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
