I'm successfully running Xen 3.2 with a few VMs on Ubuntu Hardy - i've made many of the changes you describe, although unfortunately i've never encountered your error I've only converted VMs that ran on Gutsy to work on Hardy; I have not yet tried to create a new VM.
Let me know if you have any specific questions, Henri Leandro Pereira de Lima e Silva 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 <http://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. > > > Cheers, Leandro. > > > 2008/4/2, Sander van Vugt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[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
