Re: [Xen-users] Error: Error creating domain: (22, 'Invalid argument')

[Andrew Turnbull <abturnbull@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/11/05, Tarmo Tänav <tarmo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a similiar problem, seemed to be related to networking,
> because disabling it made things work well.
> After getting the invalid message the domain appeared to be
> in paused state, as shown by "xm list", just running "xm unpause domid"
> made it work.

Hi

Its not actually appearing in the xm list at all. So How do I disable
the networking ? Please can you explain.

Thanks
>
> --
> Tarmo Tänav
>
> On E, 2005-11-21 at 18:29 +0000, Andrew Turnbull wrote:
> > Hi there
> >
> > I get the following error message when i try to "xm create <domid>"
> >
> > Error: Error creating domain: (22, 'Invalid argument')
> >
> > I have included everything i can think of
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > The DomU config is
> >
> > kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-xenU"
> > ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6.12.6-xenU.img"
> > memory = 128
> > name = "xen01"
> > nics=1
> > disk = [ 'phy:/dev/xensys01/xen01,sda1,w', 
> > 'phy:/dev/xensys01/xen01swap,sda2,w']
> > root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
> >
> > My xm dmesg is
> >
> >  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/netos/xen
> >  University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
> >
> >  Xen version 3.0-devel (root@(none)) (gcc version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red
> > Hat 3.4.4-2)) Sun Nov 20 17:49:04 GMT 2005
> >  Latest ChangeSet: Sat Nov 19 09:37:14 2005 +0100 7901:aad88a902892
> >
> > (XEN) Physical RAM map:
> > (XEN)  0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
> > (XEN)  000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> > (XEN)  00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> > (XEN)  0000000000100000 - 00000000e8100000 (usable)
> > (XEN)  00000000efff0000 - 00000000effff000 (ACPI data)
> > (XEN)  00000000effff000 - 00000000f0000000 (ACPI NVS)
> > (XEN)  00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
> > (XEN)  00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> > (XEN)  0000000100000000 - 0000000400000000 (usable)
> > (XEN) System RAM: 16000MB (16384636kB)
> > (XEN) Xen heap: 9MB (10124kB)
> > (XEN) PAE enabled, limit: 16 GB
> > (XEN) found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
> > (XEN) DMI 2.3 present.
> > (XEN) Using APIC driver default
> > (XEN) ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI                                   ) @ 0x000ff900
> > (XEN) ACPI: RSDT (v001 RCC    GCHE     0x00000001 MSFT 0x01000000) @ 
> > 0xefff0000
> > (XEN) ACPI: FADT (v001 RCC    GCHE     0x00000001 MSFT 0x01000000) @ 
> > 0xefff0030
> > (XEN) ACPI: MADT (v001 RCC    GCHE     0x00000001 MSFT 0x01000000) @ 
> > 0xefff00b0
> > (XEN) ACPI: DSDT (v001    RCC     GCHE 0x00000100 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 
> > 0x00000000
> > (XEN) ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
> > (XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
> > (XEN) Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20
> > (XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
> > (XEN) Processor #1 15:2 APIC version 20
> > (XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)
> > (XEN) Processor #2 15:2 APIC version 20
> > (XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] enabled)
> > (XEN) Processor #3 15:2 APIC version 20
> > (XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x00] disabled)
> > (XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x05] lapic_id[0x00] disabled)
> > (XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x06] lapic_id[0x00] disabled)
> > (XEN) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x07] lapic_id[0x00] disabled)
> > (XEN) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x08] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
> > (XEN) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 8, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-15
> > (XEN) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x09] address[0xfec01000] gsi_base[16])
> > (XEN) IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 9, version 17, address 0xfec01000, GSI 16-31
> > (XEN) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x0a] address[0xfec02000] gsi_base[32])
> > (XEN) IOAPIC[2]: apic_id 10, version 17, address 0xfec02000, GSI 32-47
> > (XEN) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
> > (XEN) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
> > (XEN) ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
> > (XEN) Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 3 I/O APICs
> > (XEN) Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
> > (XEN) Initializing CPU#0
> > (XEN) Detected 1993.586 MHz processor.
> > (XEN) Using scheduler: Simple EDF Scheduler (sedf)
> > (XEN) CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
> > (XEN) CPU: L2 cache: 512K
> > (XEN) CPU: L3 cache: 1024K
> > (XEN) CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
> > (XEN) CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.00GHz stepping 05
> > (XEN) Booting processor 1/1 eip 90000
> > (XEN) Initializing CPU#1
> > (XEN) CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
> > (XEN) CPU: L2 cache: 512K
> > (XEN) CPU: L3 cache: 1024K
> > (XEN) CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
> > (XEN) CPU1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.00GHz stepping 05
> > (XEN) Booting processor 2/2 eip 90000
> > (XEN) Initializing CPU#2
> > (XEN) CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
> > (XEN) CPU: L2 cache: 512K
> > (XEN) CPU: L3 cache: 1024K
> > (XEN) CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
> > (XEN) CPU2: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.00GHz stepping 05
> > (XEN) Booting processor 3/3 eip 90000
> > (XEN) Initializing CPU#3
> > (XEN) CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
> > (XEN) CPU: L2 cache: 512K
> > (XEN) CPU: L3 cache: 1024K
> > (XEN) CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
> > (XEN) CPU3: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.00GHz stepping 05
> > (XEN) Total of 4 processors activated.
> > (XEN) ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
> > (XEN) ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
> > (XEN) ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
> > (XEN) ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...  failed.
> > (XEN) ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... works.
> > (XEN) checking TSC synchronization across 4 CPUs: passed.
> > (XEN) Platform timer is 1.193MHz PIT
> > (XEN) Brought up 4 CPUs
> > (XEN) mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
> > (XEN) *** LOADING DOMAIN 0 ***
> > (XEN) Xen-ELF header found:
> > 'GUEST_OS=linux,GUEST_VER=2.6,XEN_VER=3.0,VIRT_BASE=0xC0000000,PAE=yes,LOADER=generic'
> > (XEN) PHYSICAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
> > (XEN)  Dom0 alloc.:   0000000007800000->0000000008000000 (129024 pages
> > to be allocated)
> > (XEN) VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
> > (XEN)  Loaded kernel: c0100000->c06205e4
> > (XEN)  Init. ramdisk: c0621000->c06c2800
> > (XEN)  Phys-Mach map: c06c3000->c0743000
> > (XEN)  Start info:    c0743000->c0744000
> > (XEN)  Page tables:   c0744000->c074d000
> > (XEN)  Boot stack:    c074d000->c074e000
> > (XEN)  TOTAL:         c0000000->c0800000
> > (XEN)  ENTRY ADDRESS: c0100000
> > (XEN) Initrd len 0xa1800, start at 0xc0621000
> > (XEN) Scrubbing Free RAM:
> > ....................................................................................................................................................................done.
> > (XEN) Xen trace buffers: disabled
> > (XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type 'CTRL-a' three times to switch
> > input to Xen).
> > (XEN) mtrr: type mismatch for fb000000,1000000 old: write-back new:
> > write-combining
> > (XEN) microcode: CPU1 updated from revision 0x13 to 0x2a, date = 08112004
> > (XEN) microcode: CPU2 updated from revision 0x13 to 0x2a, date = 08112004
> > (XEN) microcode: CPU3 updated from revision 0x13 to 0x2a, date = 08112004
> > (XEN) microcode: CPU0 updated from revision 0x13 to 0x2a, date = 08112004
> >
> > My Xend.log
> >
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:178)
> > XendDomainInfo.create(['vm', ['name', 'xen01'], ['memory', '128'],
> > ['image', ['linux', ['kernel', '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-xenU'],
> > ['ramdisk', '/boot/initrd-2.6.12.6-xenU.img'], ['root', '/dev/sda1
> > ro'], ['args', '4'], ['vcpus', '1'], ['vcpus', '1'], ['boot', 'c']]],
> > ['device', ['vbd', ['uname', 'phy:/dev/xensys01/xen01'], ['dev',
> > 'sda1'], ['mode', 'w']]], ['device', ['vbd', ['uname',
> > 'phy:/dev/xensys01/xen01swap'], ['dev', 'sda2'], ['mode', 'w']]],
> > ['device', ['vif']]])
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:283)
> > parseConfig: config is ['vm', ['name', 'xen01'], ['memory', '128'],
> > ['image', ['linux', ['kernel', '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-xenU'],
> > ['ramdisk', '/boot/initrd-2.6.12.6-xenU.img'], ['root', '/dev/sda1
> > ro'], ['args', '4'], ['vcpus', '1'], ['vcpus', '1'], ['boot', 'c']]],
> > ['device', ['vbd', ['uname', 'phy:/dev/xensys01/xen01'], ['dev',
> > 'sda1'], ['mode', 'w']]], ['device', ['vbd', ['uname',
> > 'phy:/dev/xensys01/xen01swap'], ['dev', 'sda2'], ['mode', 'w']]],
> > ['device', ['vif']]]
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:337)
> > parseConfig: result is {'ssidref': None, 'uuid': None, 'on_crash':
> > None, 'on_reboot': None, 'image': ['linux', ['kernel',
> > '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-xenU'], ['ramdisk',
> > '/boot/initrd-2.6.12.6-xenU.img'], ['root', '/dev/sda1 ro'], ['args',
> > '4'], ['vcpus', '1'], ['vcpus', '1'], ['boot', 'c']], 'on_poweroff':
> > None, 'name': 'xen01', 'backend': [], 'vcpus': 1, 'cpu_weight': None,
> > 'vcpu_avail': None, 'memory': 128, 'device': [('vbd', ['vbd',
> > ['uname', 'phy:/dev/xensys01/xen01'], ['dev', 'sda1'], ['mode',
> > 'w']]), ('vbd', ['vbd', ['uname', 'phy:/dev/xensys01/xen01swap'],
> > ['dev', 'sda2'], ['mode', 'w']]), ('vif', ['vif'])], 'bootloader':
> > None, 'cpu': None, 'maxmem': None}
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1065)
> > XendDomainInfo.construct: None 0
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1097)
> > XendDomainInfo.initDomain: 6 1.0
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend] INFO (image:132) buildDomain os=linux dom=6 
> > vcpus=1
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend] DEBUG (image:170) dom            = 6
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend] DEBUG (image:171) image          =
> > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-xenU
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend] DEBUG (image:172) store_evtchn   = 1
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend] DEBUG (image:173) console_evtchn = 2
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend] DEBUG (image:174) cmdline        =
> > root=/dev/sda1 ro 4
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend] DEBUG (image:175) ramdisk        =
> > /boot/initrd-2.6.12.6-xenU.img
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend] DEBUG (image:176) vcpus          = 1
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend.XendDomainInfo] ERROR (XendDomainInfo:190)
> > Domain construction failed
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File 
> > "/root/xen-unstable/dist/install/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
> > line 183, in create
> >     vm.initDomain()
> >   File 
> > "/root/xen-unstable/dist/install/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
> > line 1118, in initDomain
> >     channel_details = self.image.createImage()
> >   File "/root/xen-unstable/dist/install/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/image.py",
> > line 115, in createImage
> >     return self.createDomain()
> >   File "/root/xen-unstable/dist/install/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/image.py",
> > line 134, in createDomain
> >     result = self.buildDomain()
> >   File "/root/xen-unstable/dist/install/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/image.py",
> > line 183, in buildDomain
> >     ramdisk        = self.ramdisk)
> > error: (22, 'Invalid argument')
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1183)
> > XendDomainInfo.destroy: domid=6
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1191)
> > XendDomainInfo.destroyDomain(6)
> > [2005-11-21 18:27:20 xend] ERROR (SrvBase:87) Request create failed.
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/root/xen-unstable/dist/install/usr/lib/python/xen/web/SrvBase.py",
> > line 85, in perform
> >     return op_method(op, req)
> >   File 
> > "/root/xen-unstable/dist/install/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/server/SrvDomainDir.py",
> > line 82, in op_create
> >     raise XendError("Error creating domain: " + str(ex))
> > XendError: Error creating domain: (22, 'Invalid argument')
> >
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