RE: [Xen-users] Cannot complete WinXP installation under Xen

[Art Fore <art.fore@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the info. I think will try the logging of the serial port to
a file.

Art

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 16:21 +0200, Petersson, Mats wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Art Fore
> > Sent: 23 October 2006 12:38
> > To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Xen-users] Cannot complete WinXP installation under Xen
> > 
> > Have not reeived any responses to my eail, so guess no one 
> > knows anything about it. Have posted also on Suse list, again 
> > no responses. Does anyone know where I can get some help with 
> > this problem?
> 
> I don't know how much help it will actually be, but you may want to (if
> possible) connect another machine to the serial port on the machine in
> question, and see if something useful comes out. 
> 
> It looks to me like the hvm_shutdown catches the domain dieing, so it's
> probably something to do with that...
> 
> "xm dmesg" may also tell us something - as long as the machine stays up,
> that's as good as a serial port. 
> 
> 
> --
> Mats
> > 
> > Art
> > 
> > \
> > 
> > Running Suse 10.1 Xen kernel and trying to install win XP. (Machine is
> > amd64 X2 dual core mother board.)I first followed this howto
> > http://en.opensuse.org/Xen_Full_Virtualization_Example
> > 
> > However, qemu does not recognize the harddisk or cdrom.
> > 
> > So I went to Yast,System, Xen virtural machinemanagement.
> > 
> > I set up the machine,full virtualization, it starts up with CD install
> > of WinXP. Go through it, it gets up to about 1/3rd of the Registering
> > Components, which is the last thing. It them hangs the machine, both
> > mouse and keyboard. It was doing this about 2/3rds through the driver
> > installation, then I changed the nvidia to nv drivers in xorg.conf.
> > 
> > I was reading about maxmem_kb, but have not found out how to set that.
> > Machne has 2GBytes ram and I alocated 512 MByte to the 
> > virtual machine.
> > I get a line in messages about maxmem-kb =17GByte, so thought that may
> > be the problem. Anyhow here is the info from the 
> > /var/log/xend-debug.log
> > interface tun0 does not exist!
> > interface tun0 does not exist!
> > interface tun0 does not exist!
> > interface tun0 does not exist!
> > interface tun0 does not exist!
> > 
> > anf from the /var/log/xend.log I get:
> > 
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:03 xend.XendDomainInfo] WARNING (XendDomainInfo:823)
> > Domain has crashed: name=winxp id=3.
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:03 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1364)
> > XendDomainInfo.destroyDomain(3)
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:03 xend] DEBUG (image:416) hvm shutdown watch
> > unregistered
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:180)
> > XendDomainInfo.create(['domain', ['domid', 3], ['uuid',
> > '4d9f050b-c0e3-044c-5c5d-2cf092918dd4'], ['ssidref', 0], ['vcpus', 1],
> > ['vcpu_avail', 1], ['cpu_weight', 1.0], ['memory', 512], ['maxmem',
> > 512], ['name', 'winxp'], ['on_poweroff', 'destroy'], ['on_reboot',
> > 'restart'], ['on_crash', 'restart'], ['image', ['hvm', ['kernel',
> > '/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'], ['device_model',
> > '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'], ['vcpus', 1], ['cdrom', '/dev/hda'],
> > ['boot', 'c'], ['sdl', 1], ['display', ':0.0'], ['xauthority',
> > '/tmp/xauth.XXXX6XRC0v']]], ['device', ['vif', ['backend', 0],
> > ['script', 'vif-bridge'], ['mac', '00:16:3e:91:c4:57'], ['type',
> > 'ioemu']]], ['device', ['vbd', ['backend', 0], ['dev', 'ioemu:hdd'],
> > ['uname', 'file:/windows/WinXP/winxp/hdd'], ['mode', 'w']]], ['state',
> > '----c-'], ['shutdown_reason', 'crash'], ['cpu_time',
> > 195.89091289500001], ['online_vcpus', 1], ['up_time', 
> > '864.157013178'],
> > ['start_time', '1161414579.62'], ['store_mfn', 478921]])
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:286)
> > parseConfig: config is ['domain', ['domid', 3], ['uuid',
> > '4d9f050b-c0e3-044c-5c5d-2cf092918dd4'], ['ssidref', 0], ['vcpus', 1],
> > ['vcpu_avail', 1], ['cpu_weight', 1.0], ['memory', 512], ['maxmem',
> > 512], ['name', 'winxp'], ['on_poweroff', 'destroy'], ['on_reboot',
> > 'restart'], ['on_crash', 'restart'], ['image', ['hvm', ['kernel',
> > '/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'], ['device_model',
> > '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'], ['vcpus', 1], ['cdrom', '/dev/hda'],
> > ['boot', 'c'], ['sdl', 1], ['display', ':0.0'], ['xauthority',
> > '/tmp/xauth.XXXX6XRC0v']]], ['device', ['vif', ['backend', 0],
> > ['script', 'vif-bridge'], ['mac', '00:16:3e:91:c4:57'], ['type',
> > 'ioemu']]], ['device', ['vbd', ['backend', 0], ['dev', 'ioemu:hdd'],
> > ['uname', 'file:/windows/WinXP/winxp/hdd'], ['mode', 'w']]], ['state',
> > '----c-'], ['shutdown_reason', 'crash'], ['cpu_time',
> > 195.89091289500001], ['online_vcpus', 1], ['up_time', 
> > '864.157013178'],
> > ['start_time', '1161414579.62'], ['store_mfn', 478921]]
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:382)
> > parseConfig: result is {'ssidref': 0, 'uuid':
> > '4d9f050b-c0e3-044c-5c5d-2cf092918dd4', 'on_crash': 'restart',
> > 'on_reboot': 'restart', 'localtime': None, 'image': ['hvm', ['kernel',
> > '/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'], ['device_model',
> > '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'], ['vcpus', 1], ['cdrom', '/dev/hda'],
> > ['boot', 'c'], ['sdl', 1], ['display', ':0.0'], ['xauthority',
> > '/tmp/xauth.XXXX6XRC0v']], 'on_poweroff': 'destroy', 'cpus': None,
> > 'name': 'winxp', 'backend': [], 'cpu': None, 'vcpus': 1, 'cpu_weight':
> > 1.0, 'vcpu_avail': 1, 'memory': 512, 'device': [('vif', ['vif',
> > ['backend', 0], ['script', 'vif-bridge'], ['mac', 
> > '00:16:3e:91:c4:57'],
> > ['type', 'ioemu']]), ('vbd', ['vbd', ['backend', 0], ['dev',
> > 'ioemu:hdd'], ['uname', 'file:/windows/WinXP/winxp/hdd'], ['mode',
> > 'w']])], 'bootloader': None, 'root': None, 'bootentry': None, 
> > 'maxmem':
> > 512}
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1189)
> > XendDomainInfo.construct: None 0
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1221)
> > XendDomainInfo.initDomain: 4 1.0
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:269) args: cdrom, 
> > val: /dev/hda
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:269) args: boot, val: c
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:269) args: fda, val: None
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:269) args: fdb, val: None
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:269) args: 
> > nic-ne2000, val: None
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:269) args: enable-audio, val:
> > None
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:269) args: localtime, 
> > val: None
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:269) args: serial, val: None
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:269) args: std-vga, val: None
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:269) args: isa, val: None
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:269) args: vcpus, val: 1
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (balloon:143) Balloon: 
> > 169192 KiB free;
> > 370228 to scrub; need 537808; retries: 20.
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (balloon:151) Balloon: waiting on
> > scrubbing
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (balloon:137) Balloon: 
> > 539420 KiB free;
> > need 537808; done.
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] INFO (image:136) buildDomain os=hvm dom=4
> > vcpus=1
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:227) dom            = 4
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:228) image
> > = /usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:229) store_evtchn   = 1
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:230) memsize        = 512
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:231) vcpus          = 1
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:232) pae            = 0
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:233) acpi           = 0
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:234) apic           = 0
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:404) hvm shutdown watch
> > registered
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (DevController:103) DevController:
> > writing {'state': '1', 'backend-id': '0', 'backend':
> > '/local/domain/0/backend/vif/4/0'} to /local/domain/4/device/vif/0.
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (DevController:105) DevController:
> > writing {'domain': 'winxp', 'handle': '0', 'script':
> > '/etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge', 'state': '1', 'frontend':
> > '/local/domain/4/device/vif/0', 'mac': '00:16:3e:91:c4:57',
> > 'frontend-id': '4', 'type': 'ioemu'} to 
> > /local/domain/0/backend/vif/4/0.
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (blkif:24) exception looking 
> > up device
> > number for hdd: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/dev/hdd'
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (DevController:103) DevController:
> > writing {'state': '1', 'backend-id': '0', 'backend':
> > '/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/4/5696'}
> > to /local/domain/4/device/vbd/5696.
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (DevController:105) DevController:
> > writing {'domain': 'winxp', 'frontend':
> > '/local/domain/4/device/vbd/5696', 'dev': 'ioemu:hdd', 'state': '1',
> > 'params': '/windows/WinXP/winxp/hdd', 'mode': 'w', 'frontend-id': '4',
> > 'type': 'file'} to /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/4/5696.
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] INFO (image:358) spawning device
> > models: /usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm ['/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm', 
> > '-d', '4',
> > '-m', '512', '-cdrom', '/dev/hda', '-boot', 'c', '-vcpus', '1',
> > '-domain-name', 'winxp', '-macaddr', '00:16:3e:91:c4:57', '-bridge',
> > 'xenbr0', '-hdd', '/windows/WinXP/winxp/hdd', '-nics', '1']
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] INFO (image:360) device model pid: 7404
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:675)
> > Storing VM details: {'ssidref': '0', 'uuid':
> > '4d9f050b-c0e3-044c-5c5d-2cf092918dd4', 'on_reboot': 'restart',
> > 'start_time': '1161415444.46', 'on_poweroff': 'destroy', 'name':
> > 'winxp', 'vcpus': '1', 'vcpu_avail': '1', 'memory': '512', 'on_crash':
> > 'restart', 'image': '(hvm (kernel /usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader)
> > (device_model /usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm) (vcpus 1) (cdrom 
> > /dev/hda) (boot
> > c) (sdl 1) (display :0.0) (xauthority /tmp/xauth.XXXX6XRC0v))',
> > 'maxmem': '512'}
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:700)
> > Storing domain details: {'console/port': '2', 'name': 'winxp',
> > 'console/limit': '1048576', 'vm':
> > '/vm/4d9f050b-c0e3-044c-5c5d-2cf092918dd4', 'domid': '4',
> > 'cpu/0/availability': 'online', 'memory/target': '524288',
> > 'store/ring-ref': '118472', 'store/port': '1'}
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend] DEBUG (image:427) hvm_shutdown fired,
> > shutdown reason=None
> > [2006-10-21 15:24:04 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:881)
> > XendDomainInfo.handleShutdownWatch
> > 
> > Has anyone any suggestions on fixing this?
> > 
> > Art
> > 
> > Also cannot install Win2k, Win98, and Knoppix. Trying to do 
> > Suse 10.0 takes about a minute per package, so I gave up.
> > 
> > I guess some people have gotten it to work with this 
> > motherboard (K9n neo). Would sure like to know the secret.
> > 
> > Art
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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