[Xen-users] Network routing setup problem; domU won't start

[Rich Wales <richw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.  I'm new to Xen.  I have an Athlon (XP 2700+) box, running Ubuntu
7.10, on which I'm hoping to run several domains in a routed networking
configuration.

My initial setup of xen-utils-3.1 (version 3.1.0-0ubuntu18) went just
fine, and my dom0 is running without problems.  And I was also able to
use xen-create-image to build a guest virtual machine, which (once it
works) I plan to use as a template image for building my other domains.

But when I try to run this new VM as a domU, using "xm create", it
fails with the following error message:

Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. /etc/xen/scripts/vif-route
failed; error detected.

Here's some info about my setup -- hopefully enough to help someone see
whatever it is that I'm doing wrong.

Here's my xend-config.sxp file (with comments stripped out):

(xen-api-server ((unix)))
(xend-http-server yes)
(xend-unix-server yes)
(xend-relocation-server no)
(xend-port 8000)
(xend-address '')
(xend-relocation-hosts-allow '')
(network-script network-route)
(vif-script vif-route)
(dom0-min-mem 196)
(dom0-cpus 0)

Here's my xen-tools.conf file (again, with comments stripped out):

lvm = vg1
install-method = debootstrap
size = 20Gb
memory = 384Mb
swap = 1024Mb
fs = ext3
dist = etch
image = sparse
gateway = 172.31.53.1
netmask = 255.255.255.0
broadcast = 172.31.53.255
accounts = 1
kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r`
initrd = /boot/initrd.img-`uname -r`
mirror_gutsy=http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

Here's the configuration file for my domU:

kernel      = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-xen'
ramdisk     = '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-xen'
memory      = '384'
root        = '/dev/hda1 ro'
disk        = [ 'phy:vg1/template-disk,hda1,w', 'phy:vg1/template-swap,hda2,w' ]
name        = 'template'
vif         = [ 'mac=f2:01:72:31:53:ff, ip=172.31.53.254' ]
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'

Here's the output from "cat /proc/cpuinfo":

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 2162.728
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36 mmx
fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up ts
bogomips        : 4327.29
clflush size    : 32

Here's the output from "uname -a":

Linux whodunit 2.6.22-14-xen #1 SMP Mon Oct 15 00:35:38 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

And here's the excerpt from /boot/grub/menu.lst that I used to boot Xen:

title           Xen 3.1 / Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-xen
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /xen-3.1.gz dom0_mem=256M
module          /vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-xen
root=UUID=2c8d1c7c-4211-4497-9cc3-85cf4521c438 ro console=tty0
module          /initrd.img-2.6.22-14-xen
quiet

Any suggestions?

-- 
Rich Wales      ===      Palo Alto, CA, USA      ===     richw@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.richw.org   ===   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Richwales

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