Re: [Xen-users] error starting xen guest

[Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:44 AM, dinesh chandrasekaran
> <dinesh_chan8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Friends,
>>                     I just installed xen/dom0 on my amd64 quad core phenom
>> processor. dom0 boot up was successfull.
>> When I used 'xm create -c /home/guest.conf' to create a xen guest, the guest
>> screen hanged after "Starting local".
>>
>> Im not getting the login prompt. Please help me solve this. Im just one step
>> away from a normal guest bootup.
>>
>> My guest fstab, config file and dmesg are as follows:
>>
>> FSTAB:
>> /dev/hda        /        ext3        noatime        0 1
>> #/dev/SWAP        none        swap        sw        0 0
>> #/dev/cdrom        /mnt/cdrom    auto        noauto,ro    0 0
>>
>> shm            /dev/shm    tmpfs        nodev,nosuid,noexec    0 0
>>
>> CONFIG FILE:
>> name="Guest"
>> kernel="/boot/domU-Gentoo"
>> memory="64"
>> disk=['file:/home/vm1.raw,hda,w']
>> root="/dev/hda ro console=xvc0"
>> on_poweroff = 'restart'
>> on_reboot = 'restart'
>> on_crash = 'restart'
>>
>
> You should be able to add:
> extra="xencons=tty"
>
> you may also want/need to move the ro console=xvc0 into the extra
> so it could be that you want
> root='/dev/hda'
> extra='ro console="xvc" xencons=tty'
>
> You may also need to add a getty script for your xvc0 if it is not
> already in your domU.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Todd
>

P.S.

Some possible hints here:
http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/XenOnEtch

-- 
Todd Deshane
http://todddeshane.net
http://runningxen.com

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