Bernd Markgraf wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running snv84 on a SunFire x2200M2, 2 dualcore opterons, 8GB ram, 2 > mirror sata disks (zfs). > I tried to install both Ubuntu 7.1 Desktop and Fedora 8 into a HVM domU but > failed everytime. > The VNC-Server for the domU dies, but the domain still consumes CPU time, > disks go idle after a while (zpool iostat or iostat show zero I/O). The domUs > booted up fine, the installer started, partitioned and formated the virtual > disks (zvols) and started copying the stuff over. Write access to the virtual > disks seemed veeery slow (less than 1MB/s, the domU was in blocked state huge > amounts of time). The hosts syslog didn't have anything abnormal. > > Here's what I tried and the output: > > markgraf.bti1 ~ # virt-install --hvm --name=hvmlx --ram=1024 > --file=/dev/zvol/dsk/data/zones/hvmlx --vnc \ > --cdrom=/data/77/ubuntu-7.10-desktop.iso > > > Starting install... > Creating domain... 0 B 00:01 > > VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.2 for X - built Feb 12 2008 00:59:52 > Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd. > See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC. > > Wed Mar 19 23:31:42 2008 > CConn: connected to host 127.0.0.1 port 5900 > CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.3 > CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.3 > > Wed Mar 19 23:32:24 2008 > TXImage: Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 24. > CConn: Using pixel format depth 6 (8bpp) rgb222 > CConn: Using ZRLE encoding > > Wed Mar 19 23:32:25 2008 > CConn: Throughput 20128 kbit/s - changing to hextile encoding > CConn: Throughput 20128 kbit/s - changing to full colour > > CConn: Using pixel format depth 24 (32bpp) little-endian rgb888 > CConn: Using hextile encoding > > Wed Mar 19 23:43:26 2008 > CConn: Throughput 20000 kbit/s - changing to raw encoding > CConn: Using raw encoding > > Thu Mar 20 02:08:45 2008 > main: End of stream > libvir: error : invalid argument in __virGetDomain > libvir: Xen Store error : out of memory > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 657, in ? > main() > File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 606, in main > dom = guest.start_install(conscb,progresscb) > File > "/export/builds/xvm_84/proto/install/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", > line 638 > , in start_install > File > "/export/builds/xvm_84/proto/install/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", > line 701 > , in _do_install > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/libvirt.py", line 555, in > lookupByName > if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainLookupByName() failed', > conn=self) > libvirt.libvirtError: virDomainLookupByName() failed out of memory > > The same happens when trying to install Fedora. > > xm top also fails: > markgraf.bti1 ~ # xm top > Failed to retrieve statistics from libxenstat > > any hints on how to get this going? Did I miss something or tried something > really stupid? ;-) > > Cheers, > Bernd > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > Sorry to ask, but what arch is OpenSolaris running as (32-bit or 64-bit, it choses automatically based on cpu checks)
You need B85 afaik to correctly use domU guests with different architecture. Try booting x86-64 versions of both distros before anything. James _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
