Re: [Xen-devel] Unable to Configure Xen Dom 0 in Jeremy's PVOPS Kernel

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 06:25:33PM +0800, Teo En Ming wrote:
> Dear Pasi,
> 
> I ran "mount /proc/xen" manually *after* the system booted up, it read 
> /etc/fstab, and mounted /proc/xen successfully!!!
> 
> Please see the last line of the following "mount" output:
> 
> /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
> /proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
> udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
> /dev/sda3 on /home type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
> fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
> gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/enming/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon 
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=enming)
> none on /proc/xen type xenfs (rw)
> 

Yep, now it's mounted :)

> It is very strange that the system did not mount /proc/xen automatically as 
> indicated in /etc/fstab during bootup.
> 

Indeed.

> Now I am able to start xend daemon. Please see 
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zzjv8MCM2sk/Smg7pKoH_JI/AAAAAAAAABU/TVkqEEyLzYQ/s1600-h/xen08.jpeg
> 
> And I can see domain 0 using the "xm list" command already!
> 

Congrats! :)

> Any ideas how to make /proc/xen automatically mounted while booting? I 
> thought I already have the xenfs entry in /etc/fstab.
> 
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620AS_9QF97Q42-part1 swap                 swap     
>   defaults              0 0
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620AS_9QF97Q42-part2 /                    ext3     
>   acl,user_xattr        1 1
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620AS_9QF97Q42-part3 /home                ext3     
>   acl,user_xattr        1 2
> proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 
> 0
> sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 
> 0
> debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 
> 0
> devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 
> 0
> none                 /proc/xen            xenfs      defaults              0 
> 0
> 
> Seems the initscripts did not attempt to mount /proc/xen during system 
> startup.
> 

That's weird.. it should be mounted automatically when it's in fstab. 
Maybe it's because sysfs /sys is 'noauto'? Try to change that to 'defaults'.

> Or should I put "mount /proc/xen" in /etc/rc.local?
> 

That shouldn't be necessary.

-- Pasi

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