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Re: [Xen-users] Installing Redhat 7,3 with hvm



Adam,

That's good to know. Have you tried to grab a disk image from standalone
installation of rh7.3?

Simon


Adam Crews -X (acrews - Xerox at Cisco) wrote:
> If anyone is still interested in this old thread, I have a rh7.3 image
> running under hvm.
>
> It's a hack, but here's what I did:
>
> Install rh7.3 in a vmware machine with vmware server.
> Booted off a live cd, ( I used a gentoo installer CD, but any live cd
> should work)
> Created a lvm volume on my Xen dom0
> >From the liveCD, I use dd to copy the disk image to the lvm image (dd
> if=/dev/hda bs=1M | ssh <my_xen_machine> dd of=/dev/XenVG/<volume_name>
> bs=1M)
>
> I setup the hvm config to use the lvm volume as hda, and everything
> seems to work fine.  Kudzu fixed up the hardware differences, and so far
> things are working well for me.
>
> -Adam
>
>   | -----Original Message-----
>   | From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   | [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
>   | Mike Freemon
>   | Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 4:03 PM
>   | To: Simon Gao; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   | Cc: Petersson, Mats
>   | Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Installing Redhat 7,3 with hvm
>   | 
>   | I too have seen this failure in attempting to install RH 
>   | 7.3 using text 
>   | mode on HVM support hardware.  This is running the Fedora 
>   | 3.0.2 RPM, but 
>   | I've seen similar crashes using xen unstable from sources.  
>   | Here is my xm 
>   | dmesg:
>   | 
>   | 
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) HVM Loader
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) Loading ROMBIOS ...
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) Loading Cirrus VGABIOS ...
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) Loading VMXAssist ...
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) VMX go ...
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) VMXAssist (Jun 21 2006)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) Memory size 512 MB
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) E820 map:
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) 0000000000000000 - 000000000009F800 (RAM)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) 000000000009F800 - 00000000000A0000 (Reserved)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) 00000000000A0000 - 00000000000C0000 (Type 16)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) 00000000000F0000 - 0000000000100000 (Reserved)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) 0000000000100000 - 000000001FFFE000 (RAM)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) 000000001FFFE000 - 000000001FFFF000 (Type 18)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) 000000001FFFF000 - 0000000020000000 (Type 17)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) 0000000020000000 - 0000000020003000 (ACPI NVS)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) 0000000020003000 - 000000002000D000 (ACPI Data)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) 00000000FEC00000 - 0000000100000000 (Type 16)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) Start BIOS ...
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) Starting emulated 16-bit real-mode: ip=F000:FFF0
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11)  rombios.c,v 1.138 2005/05/07 15:55:26 
>   | vruppert Exp $
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) Remapping master: ICW2 0x8 -> 0x20
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) Remapping slave: ICW2 0x70 -> 0x28
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) VGABios $Id: vgabios.c,v 1.61 2005/05/24 16:50:50 
>   | vruppert Exp $
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) HVMAssist BIOS, 1 cpu, $Revision: 1.138 $ $Date: 
>   | 2005/05/07 15:55:26 $
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) ata0-0: PCHS=16383/16/63 translation=lba 
>   | LCHS=1024/255/63
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-2 
>   | Hard-Disk (10241 MBytes)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) ata0  slave: Unknown device
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) ata1 master: QEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) ata1  slave: Unknown device
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) Booting from CD-Rom...
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) int13_harddisk: function 15, unmapped 
>   | device for ELDL=81
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) KBD: unsupported int 16h function 03
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 11) int13_harddisk: function 15, unmapped 
>   | device for ELDL=81
>   | (XEN) Failed vm entry (reason 0x80000021)
>   | (XEN) *********** VMCS Area **************
>   | (XEN)    16-bit Guest-State Fields
>   | (XEN)           0x00000800: 0x7000 0x0010 0x7000 0x0000
>   | (XEN)           0x00000808: 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0008
>   | (XEN)    16-bit Host-State Fields
>   | (XEN)           0x00000c00: 0x0000 0xe010 0x0000 0x0000
>   | (XEN)           0x00000c08: 0x0000 0x0000 0xe040
>   | (XEN)    64-bit Control Fields
>   | (XEN)           0x00002000: 0x0000000000f96000 0x0000000000000000 
>   | 0x0000000000f93000 0x0000000000000000
>   | (XEN)           0x00002004: ------------------ ------------------ 
>   | 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
>   | (XEN)           0x00002008: 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 
>   | 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
>   | (XEN)           0x0000200c: 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 
>   | ------------------ ------------------
>   | (XEN)           0x00002010: 0xfff6d36cb4c7a2ac 0x00000000fff6d36c 
>   | 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
>   | (XEN)    64-bit Guest-State Fields
>   | (XEN)           0x00002800: 0xffffffffffffffff 0x00000000ffffffff 
>   | 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
>   | (XEN)    32-bit Control Fields
>   | (XEN)           0x00004000: 0x0000001f 0x0699e7fa 
>   | 0x00004008 0x00000000
>   | (XEN)           0x00004008: 0x00000000 0x00000000 
>   | 0x0003efff 0x00000000
>   | (XEN)           0x00004010: 0x00000000 0x000011ff 
>   | 0x00000000 0x00000020
>   | (XEN)           0x00004018: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>   | (XEN)    32-bit RO Data Fields
>   | (XEN)           0x00004400: 0x0000000c 0x80000021 
>   | 0x00000000 0x00000000
>   | (XEN)           0x00004408: 0x00000000 0x00000000 
>   | 0x00000003 0x00000000
>   | (XEN)    32-bit Guest-State Fields
>   | (XEN)           0x00004800: 0x000b472f 0xffffffff 
>   | 0x000b472f 0x0000ffff
>   | (XEN)           0x00004808: 0x0000ffff 0x0000ffff 
>   | 0x00000000 0x00002067
>   | (XEN)           0x00004810: 0x00008000 0x00000000 
>   | 0x000000ec 0x0000c09b
>   | (XEN)           0x00004818: 0x000000ec 0x00010093 
>   | 0x00010093 0x00010093
>   | (XEN)           0x00004820: 0x00000082 0x0000008b 
>   | 0x00000000 0x00000000
>   | (XEN)           0x00004828: 0xe7f00000 0x00000000
>   | (XEN)    32-bit Host-State Fields
>   | (XEN)           0x00004c00: 0x00000000
>   | (XEN)    Natural 64-bit Control Fields
>   | (XEN)           0x00006000: 0xffffffffffffffff 0xffffffffffffffff 
>   | 0x0000000000050031 0x0000000000000651
>   | (XEN)           0x00006008: 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 
>   | 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
>   | (XEN)    64-bit RO Data Fields
>   | (XEN)           0x00006400: 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 
>   | 0x0000000000000021 0x00000000000d6a34
>   | (XEN)           0x00006408: 0x00000000000d1586 0x0000000000000000
>   | (XEN)    Natural 64-bit Guest-State Fields
>   | (XEN)           0x00006800: 0x0000000080050031 0x0000000040e22000 
>   | 0x0000000000002671 0x0000000097f13345
>   | (XEN)           0x00006808: 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000097f13345 
>   | 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
>   | (XEN)           0x00006810: 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 
>   | 0x00000000000d6b24 0x0000000000070b2b
>   | (XEN)           0x00006818: 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000400 
>   | 0x0000000000008ff2 0x0000000000100000
>   | (XEN)           0x00006820: 0x0000000000004006 0x0000000000000000 
>   | 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
>   | (XEN)    Natural 64-bit Host-State Fields
>   | (XEN)           0x00006c00: 0x000000008005003b 0x0000000040f26000 
>   | 0x00000000000026f0 0x00002aaaaaac2050
>   | (XEN)           0x00006c08: 0xffffffff805d2100 0xffff83000024bc80 
>   | 0xffff820000000000 0xffff830000251060
>   | (XEN)           0x00006c10: 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 
>   | 0xffff830000223fd0 0xffff8300001b75e0
>   | (XEN) **************************************
>   | (XEN) domain_crash_sync called from vmx.c:2060
>   | (XEN) Domain 11 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#0:
>   | (XEN) ----[ Xen-3.0-unstable    Not tainted ]----
>   | (XEN) CPU:    0
>   | (XEN) RIP:    0010:[<0000000000100000>]
>   | (XEN) RFLAGS: 0000000000004006   CONTEXT: hvm
>   | (XEN) rax: 0000000000070001   rbx: 0000000000000000   rcx: 
>   | 0000000000000000
>   | (XEN) rdx: 000000000007c081   rsi: 0000000000070000   rdi: 
>   | 00000000001c00aa
>   | (XEN) rbp: 00000000000d0000   rsp: 0000000000008ff2   r8:  
>   | 0000000000000000
>   | (XEN) r9:  0000000000000000   r10: 0000000000000000   r11: 
>   | 0000000000000000
>   | (XEN) r12: 0000000000000000   r13: 0000000000000000   r14: 
>   | 0000000000000000
>   | (XEN) r15: 0000000000000000   cr0: 0000000000050031   cr3: 
>   | 0000000040e22000
>   | (XEN) ds: 0000   es: 7000   fs: 0000   gs: 0000   ss: 7000  
>   |  cs: 0010
>   | 
>   | 
>   | 
>   | 
>   | 
>   | At 8/10/2006 01:42 AM  Thursday, Simon Gao wrote:
>   | Here is logged message:
>   | 
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) HVM Loader
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) Loading ROMBIOS ...
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) Loading Cirrus VGABIOS ...
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) Loading VMXAssist ...
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) VMX go ...
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) VMXAssist (Aug  4 2006)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) Memory size 128 MB
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) E820 map:
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) 0000000000000000 - 000000000009F800 (RAM)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) 000000000009F800 - 00000000000A0000 (Reserved)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) 00000000000A0000 - 00000000000C0000 (Type 16)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) 00000000000F0000 - 0000000000100000 (Reserved)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) 0000000000100000 - 0000000007FFE000 (RAM)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) 0000000007FFE000 - 0000000007FFF000 (Type 18)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) 0000000007FFF000 - 0000000008000000 (Type 17)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) 0000000008000000 - 0000000008003000 (ACPI NVS)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) 0000000008003000 - 000000000800D000 (ACPI Data)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) 00000000FEC00000 - 0000000100000000 (Type 16)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) Start BIOS ...
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) Starting emulated 16-bit real-mode: ip=F000:FFF0
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8)  rombios.c,v 1.138 2005/05/07 15:55:26 
>   | vruppert Exp $
>   | (XEN) HVM_PIT: guest freq in cycles=99870216
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) Remapping master: ICW2 0x8 -> 0x20
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) Remapping slave: ICW2 0x70 -> 0x28
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) VGABios $Id: vgabios.c,v 1.61 2005/05/24 
>   | 16:50:50 vruppert 
>   | Exp $
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) HVMAssist BIOS, 1 cpu, $Revision: 1.138 $ $Date: 
>   | 2005/05/07 15:55:26 $
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) ata0-0: PCHS=8322/16/63 translation=lba 
>   | LCHS=522/255/63
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-2 Hard-Disk 
>   | (4096 MBytes)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) ata0  slave: Unknown device
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) ata1 master: QEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) ata1  slave: Unknown device
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8)
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) Booting from CD-Rom...
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) int13_harddisk: function 15, unmapped 
>   | device for ELDL=81
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) KBD: unsupported int 16h function 03
>   | (XEN) (GUEST: 8) int13_harddisk: function 15, unmapped 
>   | device for ELDL=81
>   | (XEN) Failed vm entry
>   | (XEN) domain_crash_sync called from vmx.c:2076
>   | (XEN) Domain 8 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#0:
>   | (XEN) ----[ Xen-3.0.2    Not tainted ]----
>   | (XEN) CPU:    0
>   | (XEN) EIP:    0010:[<00100000>]
>   | (XEN) EFLAGS: 00004006   CONTEXT: hvm
>   | (XEN) eax: 00070001   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 00000000   edx: 00011881
>   | (XEN) esi: 00070000   edi: 001c00aa   ebp: 000d0000   esp: 00008ff2
>   | (XEN) cr0: 00050031   cr3: 24220000
>   | (XEN) ds: 0000   es: 7000   fs: 0000   gs: 0000   ss: 7000  
>   |  cs: 0010
>   | 
>   | 
>   | 
>   | 
>   | 
>   | 
>   | 
>   | At 8/10/2006 01:42 AM  Thursday, Simon Gao wrote:
>   | >Here is logged message:
>   | >
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) HVM Loader
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) Loading ROMBIOS ...
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) Loading Cirrus VGABIOS ...
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) Loading VMXAssist ...
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) VMX go ...
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) VMXAssist (Aug  4 2006)
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) Memory size 128 MB
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) E820 map:
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) 0000000000000000 - 000000000009F800 (RAM)
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) 000000000009F800 - 00000000000A0000 (Reserved)
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) 00000000000A0000 - 00000000000C0000 (Type 16)
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) 00000000000F0000 - 0000000000100000 (Reserved)
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) 0000000000100000 - 0000000007FFE000 (RAM)
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) 0000000007FFE000 - 0000000007FFF000 (Type 18)
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) 0000000007FFF000 - 0000000008000000 (Type 17)
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) 0000000008000000 - 0000000008003000 (ACPI NVS)
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) 0000000008003000 - 000000000800D000 (ACPI Data)
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) 00000000FEC00000 - 0000000100000000 (Type 16)
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8)
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) Start BIOS ...
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) Starting emulated 16-bit real-mode: ip=F000:FFF0
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8)  rombios.c,v 1.138 2005/05/07 15:55:26 
>   | vruppert Exp $
>   | >(XEN) HVM_PIT: guest freq in cycles=99870216
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) Remapping master: ICW2 0x8 -> 0x20
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) Remapping slave: ICW2 0x70 -> 0x28
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) VGABios $Id: vgabios.c,v 1.61 2005/05/24 16:50:50 
>   | >vruppert Exp $
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) HVMAssist BIOS, 1 cpu, $Revision: 1.138 $ $Date: 
>   | >2005/05/07 15:55:26 $
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8)
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) ata0-0: PCHS=8322/16/63 translation=lba 
>   | LCHS=522/255/63
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-2 
>   | Hard-Disk (4096 MBytes)
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) ata0  slave: Unknown device
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) ata1 master: QEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) ata1  slave: Unknown device
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8)
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) Booting from CD-Rom...
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) int13_harddisk: function 15, unmapped 
>   | device for ELDL=81
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) KBD: unsupported int 16h function 03
>   | >(XEN) (GUEST: 8) int13_harddisk: function 15, unmapped 
>   | device for ELDL=81
>   | >(XEN) Failed vm entry
>   | >(XEN) domain_crash_sync called from vmx.c:2076
>   | >(XEN) Domain 8 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#0:
>   | >(XEN) ----[ Xen-3.0.2    Not tainted ]----
>   | >(XEN) CPU:    0
>   | >(XEN) EIP:    0010:[<00100000>]
>   | >(XEN) EFLAGS: 00004006   CONTEXT: hvm
>   | >(XEN) eax: 00070001   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 00000000   edx: 00011881
>   | >(XEN) esi: 00070000   edi: 001c00aa   ebp: 000d0000   esp: 00008ff2
>   | >(XEN) cr0: 00050031   cr3: 24220000
>   | >(XEN) ds: 0000   es: 7000   fs: 0000   gs: 0000   ss: 7000 
>   |   cs: 0010
>   | >
>   | >
>   | >
>   | >
>   | >
>   | >
>   | >
>   | >
>   | >
>   | >
>   | >
>   | >Simon Gao wrote:
>   | >>Tried text mode. The install window still closed while 
>   | loading vmlinuz.
>   | >>
>   | >>Simon
>   | >>
>   | >>Petersson, Mats wrote:
>   | >>>>-----Original Message-----
>   | >>>>From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   | >>>>[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
>   | Behalf Of Simon Gao
>   | >>>>Sent: 07 August 2006 18:13
>   | >>>>To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   | >>>>Subject: [Xen-users] Installing Redhat 7,3 with hvm
>   | >>>>
>   | >>>>Hi,
>   | >>>>
>   | >>>>Has anyone installed Redhat 7.3 in hvm environment? 
>   | When I tried, the 
>   | >>>>install screen came up and closed shortly after hit 
>   | Return at prompt.
>   | >>>>
>   | >>>
>   | >>>You may be able to get away with it if you use "nogfx" 
>   | or whatever the
>   | >>>option is for "text" installation [no graphics]. I'm not 
>   | making any
>   | >>>guarantees tho'.
>   | >>>--
>   | >>>Mats
>   | >>>
>   | >>>>The machine has no problem with hvm setup since Windows 
>   | XP works fine 
>   | >>>>on it.
>   | >>>>
>   | >>>>Any help is appreciated.
>   | >>>>
>   | >>>>Simon
>   | >>>>
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