[Xen-users] Re: debian lenny domU installation

[Wei Jiang <talk90091e@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 02:43:00PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Wei Jiang <talk90091e@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> >>> xm create -c xm-debian.cfg install=true
> >>> install-mirror=ftp://ftp.XX.debian.org/debian
> >>>
> >>> I got a kernel BUG
> >>> ---------------------
> >>> Installer: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily
> >> 
> >> You're trying the daily snapshot of the installer, not the official
> >> Lenny one.
> >
> > The offical Lenny has the same problem. Details as below:
> >
> > # xm create -c xm-debian.cfg install=true 
> > install-mirror=ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian
> > Using config file "./xm-debian.cfg".
> > Install Mirror: ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian
> > Install Suite: lenny
> > Installer: 
> > ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images
> >
> > WARNING: Installer kernel and ramdisk are not authenticated.
> >
> > Fetching 
> > ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/xen/vmlinuz
> > Fetching 
> > ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/xen/initrd.gz
> > command line is "debian-installer/exit/always_halt=true -- quiet 
> > console=hvc0"
> > Started domain ExampleDomain
> > [    0.004000] 1 multicall(s) failed: cpu 0
> > [    0.004000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > [    0.004000] kernel BUG at arch/x86/xen/multicalls.c:103!
> > [    0.004000] EIP is at xen_mc_flush+0x131/0x13b
> > [    0.004000] EAX: 00000001 EBX: c262ea60 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000
> > [    0.004000] ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000001 EBP: c262e060 ESP: c0391f78
> > [    0.004000]  DS: e021 ES: e021 FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: e021
> > [    0.004000] Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c0390000 task=c0361300 
> > task.ti=c0390000)
> > [    0.004000] Stack: 00000000 00381000 00000000 30023001 00000000 c010577d 
> > 3007b000 00000000
> > [    0.004000]        30023001 00000000 30023001 00000000 00000000 c0381000 
> > c011aaa6 c03a77cc
> > [    0.004000]        30023001 00000000 00000020 c0391fe4 00000000 00000000 
> > c03977be c03bbc80
> > [    0.004000] Call Trace:
> > [    0.004000]  [<c010577d>] xen_set_pud_hyper+0x8e/0xa6
> > [    0.004000]  [<c011aaa6>] zap_low_mappings+0x46/0x60
> > [    0.004000]  [<c03a77cc>] mem_init+0x324/0x340
> > [    0.004000]  [<c03977be>] start_kernel+0x22f/0x2d7
> > [    0.004000]  [<c039cd64>] xen_start_kernel+0x276/0x27c
> > [    0.004000]  =======================
> > [    0.004000] Code: 5a 59 31 f6 8d 9d 00 0a 00 00 eb 09 8b 43 04 46 ff 13 
> > 83 c3 08 3b b5 08 0b 00 00 72 ef 85 ff c7 85 08 0b00 00 00 00 00 00 74 04 
> > <0f> 0b eb fe 5b 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 57 89 d7 56 89 c6 53 b8 60 e0 3c
> > [    0.004000] EIP: [<c0104de7>] xen_mc_flush+0x131/0x13b SS:ESP 
> > e021:c0391f78
> > [    0.004000] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---
> > [    0.004000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> 
> That's most interesting.  Precisely what kernel/hypervisor/xen-tools
> version is this?  On what type of machine?  I never had such problems.

My box is run CentOS 5.3 on x86_64, the xen is 3.1.2. I did some
changes from original xm-debian.cfg, which replace the original disk
with a specified file.

[root@jzhu debian]# diff -up xm-debian.cfg.orig xm-debian.cfg
--- xm-debian.cfg.orig  2009-07-02 11:45:20.000000000 +0800
+++ xm-debian.cfg       2009-07-02 11:47:08.000000000 +0800
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ vif = ['']
 #
 # NB: Only xvd devices are supported by the kernel in Debian Lenny
 and later.

-disk = ['phy:hda1,xvda,w']
+#disk = ['phy:hda1,xvda,w']
+disk = ['file:/workspace/vms/tvb.img,xvda,w']

 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Define frame buffer device.


[root@jzhu debian]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.3 (Final)
[root@jzhu debian]# uname -r -m
2.6.18-128.el5xen x86_64
[root@jzhu debian]# xm info
host                   : mybox
release                : 2.6.18-128.el5xen
version                : #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 11:12:42 EST 2009
machine                : x86_64
nr_cpus                : 2
nr_nodes               : 1
sockets_per_node       : 1
cores_per_socket       : 2
threads_per_core       : 1
cpu_mhz                : 2793
hw_caps                : 
bfebfbff:20100800:00000000:00000180:0000e49d:00000000:00000001
total_memory           : 1015
free_memory            : 0
node_to_cpu            : node0:0-1
xen_major              : 3
xen_minor              : 1
xen_extra              : .2-128.el5
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p
xen_pagesize           : 4096
platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
xen_changeset          : unavailable
cc_compiler            : gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)
cc_compile_by          : mockbuild
cc_compile_domain      : centos.org
cc_compile_date        : Wed Jan 21 10:33:49 EST 2009
xend_config_format     : 2

> -- 
> Feri.

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