RE: [Xen-users] Windows 2003 DomU reboots sentire erver on create

["Kriz, Mike" <Mike_Kriz@xxxxxxx>]

I tried using vnc instead of sdl and it still crashed.  Where can I get
3.0.4?  The most recent version on the website seems to be 3.0.3?

-----Original Message-----
From: M.A. Williamson [mailto:maw48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M.A.
Williamson
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 10:03 AM
To: Kriz, Mike
Cc: Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Windows 2003 DomU reboots sentire erver on
create

>I was using the Gentoo version which is 3.0.2.  I did realize it looks
>like XWindows is required for installing Windows, so I am installing
>that now.  I didn't realize that, I was trying to run it from a
console.

You could probably run without X if you exported the Windows guest's 
display over VNC.

>It still seems odd it would reboot the server as opposed to failing
with
>an error, however.

Indeed. That's definitely a bug, no question about it. However, it's
quite 
possibly been fixed in a later Xen release. The version of Xen you're 
running is fairly old and there have been fixes to the HVM code since
then. 
I really would recommend you download 3.0.4 and try that in place of the

stock Gentoo version - you'd have a better chance of it working.

>I was planning on 32 bit Windows.  I had read you could still run 32bit
>versions of DomU on a 64bit Dom0.  I'd like to keep Dom0 at 64bit for
>options with memory for the future.

That's fine. You can run 32-bit, or 32-bit with PAE guests on a 64-bit 
Xen/dom0.

Cheers,
Mark

>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: M.A. Williamson [mailto:maw48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M.A.
>Williamson
>Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 6:35 PM
>To: Kriz, Mike
>Cc: Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Windows 2003 DomU reboots sentire erver on
>create
>
>>I'm trying to get a Windows 2003 domu running, and I'm having
>>difficulties.  Any help would be much appreciated!  About the server:
>>It's an IBM x series running AMD64, x64 install of Gentoo Linux.
>>
>>I have it up and running with a pretty standard Xen 3.0 install, and
>the
>>Linux domUs work perfectly.
>>
>>When I try to start Windows 2003, the whole server completely reboots.
>>I am following the Xen Windows Howto PDF.
>
>This is definitely some kind of bug in your version of Xen.
>
>What point release are you installing? i.e. 3.0.[01234] or -unstable?
>I'd 
>recommend upgrading to the latest release (which is 3.0.4) to test
>whether 
>your problem still occurs.
>
>Also, you're presumably installing 64-bit Win 2k3? If you were to try a

>32-bit install I have a hunch it'd work OK. I realise that probably
>doesn't 
>solve your problem though... Last I remember, 64-bit support for
Windows
>
>was a bit less mature than 32-bit support, so presumably there may
still
>be 
>some kinks.
>
>We may want to take this to the xen-devel list as a bug, if we can't
>work 
>out some other solution. Good luck in the meantime!
>
>Cheers,
>Mark
>
>>
>>Here's a basic config I am using that is based on the howto, other
then
>>that I am using a file as the filesystem rather then an LVM:
>>
>>kernel = '/usr/lib64/xen/boot/hvmloader'
>>builder='hvm'
>>memory = 512
>>name = 'winxendefault'
>>vif = [ ' ' ]
>>disk = [ 'file:/xen_fs/win2k3_1,hda,w' ]
>>cdrom='/xen_images/win2k3_cd.iso'
>>boot='d'
>>sdl=1
>>vnc=0
>>vncviewer=0
>>device_model = '/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
>>
>>Here is some debug output from the crash in xend.log:
>>
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:178)
>>XendDomainInfo.create(['vm', ['name', 'winxendefault'], ['memory',
>512],
>>['vcpus', 1], ['
>>image', ['hvm', ['kernel', '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.28-xenU'],
>>['device_model', '/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm'], ['vcpus', 1],
['cdrom',
>>'/xen_images/win2k3_cd.iso
>>'], ['boot', 'd'], ['sdl', 1], ['xauthority', '/root/.Xauthority']]],
>>['device', ['vbd', ['uname', 'file:/xen_fs/win2k3_1'], ['dev', 'hda'],
>>['mode', 'w']]],
>>['device', ['vif', ['bridge', 'xenbr0'], ['mac', '00:16:3e:00:00:94'],
>>['type', 'ioemu']]]])
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:284)
>>parseConfig: config is ['vm', ['name', 'winxendefault'], ['memory',
>>512], ['vcpus', 1], [
>>'image', ['hvm', ['kernel', '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.28-xenU'],
>>['device_model', '/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm'], ['vcpus', 1],
['cdrom',
>>'/xen_images/win2k3_cd.is
>>o'], ['boot', 'd'], ['sdl', 1], ['xauthority', '/root/.Xauthority']]],
>>['device', ['vbd', ['uname', 'file:/xen_fs/win2k3_1'], ['dev', 'hda'],
>>['mode', 'w']]],
>> ['device', ['vif', ['bridge', 'xenbr0'], ['mac',
'00:16:3e:00:00:94'],
>>['type', 'ioemu']]]]
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:380)
>>parseConfig: result is {'ssidref': None, 'uuid': None, 'on_crash':
>None,
>>'on_reboot': Non
>>e, 'image': ['hvm', ['kernel', '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.28-xenU'],
>>['device_model', '/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm'], ['vcpus', 1],
['cdrom',
>>'/xen_images/win2k3_cd
>>.iso'], ['boot', 'd'], ['sdl', 1], ['xauthority',
>'/root/.Xauthority']],
>>'on_poweroff': None, 'cpus': None, 'name': 'winxendefault', 'backend':
>>[], 'vcpus': 1
>>, 'cpu_weight': None, 'vcpu_avail': None, 'memory': 512, 'device':
>>[('vbd', ['vbd', ['uname', 'file:/xen_fs/win2k3_1'], ['dev', 'hda'],
>>['mode', 'w']]), ('vif
>>', ['vif', ['bridge', 'xenbr0'], ['mac', '00:16:3e:00:00:94'],
['type',
>>'ioemu']])], 'bootloader': None, 'cpu': None, 'maxmem': None}
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1164)
>>XendDomainInfo.construct: None 0
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1196)
>>XendDomainInfo.initDomain: 2 1.0
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: cdrom, val:
>>/xen_images/win2k3_cd.iso
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: boot, val: d
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: fda, val: None
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: fdb, val: None
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: nic-ne2000, val:
>None
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: enable-audio, val:
>>None
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: localtime, val:
None
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: serial, val: None
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: std-vga, val: None
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: isa, val: None
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: vcpus, val: 1
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (balloon:130) Balloon: free 7; need
>>513.
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (balloon:139) Balloon: setting dom0
>>target to 4017.
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:945)
>>Setting memory target of domain Domain-0 (0) to 4017 MiB.
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (balloon:126) Balloon: free 513; need
>>513; done.
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] INFO (image:135) buildDomain os=hvm dom=2
>>vcpus=1
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:224) dom            = 2
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:225) image          =
>>/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.28-xenU
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:226) store_evtchn   = 1
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:227) memsize        = 512
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:228) vcpus          = 1
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:229) pae            = 0
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:230) acpi           = 0
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:231) apic           = 0
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:396) hvm shutdown watch
>>registered
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend.XendDomainInfo] ERROR (XendDomainInfo:190)
>>Domain construction failed
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File
"/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
>>line 183, in create
>>    vm.initDomain()
>>  File
"/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
>>line 1225, in initDomain
>>    channel_details = self.image.createImage()
>>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line
>118,
>>in createImage
>>    return self.createDomain()
>>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line
>137,
>>in createDomain
>>    result = self.buildDomain()
>>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line
>242,
>>in buildDomain
>>    apic           = self.apic)
>>error: (0, 'Error')
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1327)
>>XendDomainInfo.destroy: domid=2
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1335)
>>XendDomainInfo.destroyDomain(2)
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:408) hvm shutdown watch
>>unregistered
>>[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] ERROR (xmlrpclib2:98) (0, 'Error')
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/util/xmlrpclib2.py",
>line
>>80, in _marshaled_dispatch
>>    response = self._dispatch(method, params)
>>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py", line 406, in
>>_dispatch
>>    return func(*params)
>>  File
>>"/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/XMLRPCServer.py",
>>line 63, in domain_create
>>    info = XendDomain.instance().domain_create(config)
>>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py",
>line
>>227, in domain_create
>>    dominfo = XendDomainInfo.create(config)
>>  File
"/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
>>line 183, in create
>>    vm.initDomain()
>>  File
"/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
>>line 1225, in initDomain
>>    channel_details = self.image.createImage()
>>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line
>118,
>>in createImage
>>    return self.createDomain()
>>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line
>137,
>>in createDomain
>>    result = self.buildDomain()
>>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line
>242,
>>in buildDomain
>>    apic           = self.apic)
>>error: (0, 'Error')
>>
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