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[Xen-users] serial port for domu


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  • From: Gordon McLellan <gordonthree@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:14:31 -0400
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Following an email found in the list archive to setup serial port
access for VM, I'm having some trouble.  I wonder if something has
changed since 2008?

1) I have xencons=off as a kernel arg for dom0, and when dom0 boots,
it finds the serial port.
2) I have blacklisted 8250, 8250_pnp and serial_core, rebooted, no
serial port under dom0
3) added the following to my domu config (domu is 32bit centos 5.2, pvm)

addirq = [ 4 ]
ioports = [ "3f8-3ff" ]

4) now to start the vm and see what happens:

# xm create mythserver
Using config file "./mythserver".
Error: function takes exactly 4 arguments (3 given)

My host is 64 bit centos 5.2, domu is 32 bit centos 5.2.  I'm running
the stock redhat version of xen that ships with el5.2

Any suggestions?

-Gordon

# uname -a
Linux xenmaster.dimension-x.local 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Dec
16 12:26:32 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# xm log
[2009-03-28 18:09:41 xend 8017] ERROR (xmlrpclib2:184) function takes
exactly 4 arguments (3 given)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/util/xmlrpclib2.py",
line 162, 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 64, in domain_create
    info = XendDomain.instance().domain_create(config)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py",
line 238, in domain_create
    dominfo = XendDomainInfo.create(config)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
line 205, in create
    vm.initDomain()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
line 1507, in initDomain
    self.createDevices()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
line 1716, in createDevices
    self.createDevice(n, c)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
line 1189, in createDevice
    return self.getDeviceController(deviceClass).createDevice(devconfig)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/DevController.py",
line 80, in createDevice
    (devid, back, front) = self.getDeviceDetails(config)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/iopif.py",
line 78, in getDeviceDetails
    allow_access = True)
TypeError: function takes exactly 4 arguments (3 given)

Full pvm config file:
# cat /etc/xen/mythserver
name = "mythserver"
uuid = "f06f3124-0f62-9ea6-ae2e-df597103b5de"
maxmem = 1024
memory = 512
vcpus = 2
bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub"
on_poweroff = "destroy"
on_reboot = "restart"
on_crash = "restart"
vfb = [ "type=vnc,vncunused=1,keymap=en-us" ]
disk = [ "phy:/dev/vg0/xen_mythserver,xvda,w" ]
vif = [ "mac=00:16:3e:0a:bf:d8,bridge=xenbr0" ]
pci = [ "0000:05:02.0","0000:06:08.0","0000:06:09.0" ]
addirq = [ 4 ]
ioports = [ "3f8-3ff" ]

# xm info
host                   : xenmaster.dimension-x.local
release                : 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen
version                : #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 12:26:32 EST 2008
machine                : x86_64
nr_cpus                : 8
nr_nodes               : 1
sockets_per_node       : 2
cores_per_socket       : 4
threads_per_core       : 1
cpu_mhz                : 1995
hw_caps                :
bfebfbff:20100800:00000000:00000140:040ce33d:00000000:00000001
total_memory           : 16382
free_memory            : 784
node_to_cpu            : node0:0-7
xen_major              : 3
xen_minor              : 1
xen_extra              : .2-92.1.22.el5
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32
hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64
xen_pagesize           : 4096
platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
xen_changeset          : unavailable
cc_compiler            : gcc version 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)
cc_compile_by          : mockbuild
cc_compile_domain      : centos.org
cc_compile_date        : Tue Dec 16 11:51:08 EST 2008
xend_config_format     : 2

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