Re: [Xen-users] How to capture boot messages of Guest

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Note that this is based on Debian experience, I'm not sure it lines up 
exactly with the Red Hat environment.
On a PHYSICAL machine, the earliest boot messages only show up on the 
console.  Once you get a little further into the boot process, if you've 
edited /etc/default/bootlogd and set BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes, the later 
portion of the boot messages will show up in /var/log/boot.  The only 
way to capture the early messages is to either read really fast, or have 
a terminal that can capture the traffic.
On a VIRTUAL machine, you're in better shape.  If you start your vm with 
"xm create -c vm.cfg, you should see all the messages on your virtual 
console.
You may have to play with the setting of the console= settings (in your 
vm.cfg file, in menu.lst, and/or in your VM's /etc/inittab - depending 
on which version of xen you're using you may need to set console=hvc0 or 
some such.
Hope this helps,

Miles Fidelman

kishore kumar wrote:
> my Guest grub.conf is below
> serial --unit=0 --speed=115200
> terminal --timeout=5 serial console
> title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (2.6.18-164.el5)
>       root (hd0,0)
>       kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 
> console==ttyS0,115200
>       initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.el5.img
> Below is the Captured boot log from my Guest OS.  I dont see all the 
> boot messages from my captured.
>   Are there any other options that needs to be given in the Guest 
> grub.conf file to Capture a very detailed boot messages? (almost all 
> the boot messages)
> root (hd0,0)
>
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 
> console=ttyS0,1
> 15200
>
> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1d5c1c]
>
> initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.el5.img
>
> [Linux-initrd @ 0x37cc0000, 0x32fc6c bytes]
>
> Linux version 2.6.18-164.el5 (mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) (gcc version 4.1.2 
> 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)) #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 15:51:48 EDT 2009
> Command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 console=ttyS0,115200
>
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
>
> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>
> BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000040000000 (usable)
>
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fc000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
>
> DMI 2.4 present.
>
> No NUMA configuration found
>
> Faking a node at 0000000000000000-0000000040000000
>
> Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000000040000000
>
> Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range
>
> disabling kdump
>
> ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1f48
>
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
>
> Processor #0 7:10 APIC version 20
>
> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
>
> IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-47
>
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
>
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 5 global_irq 5 low level)
>
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 10 global_irq 10 low level)
>
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 11 global_irq 11 low level)
>
> Setting APIC routing to physical flat
>
> Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
>
> Nosave address range: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
>
> Nosave address range: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e0000
>
> Nosave address range: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
>
> Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bc000000)
>
> SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
>
> Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 257162
>
> Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 console=ttyS0,115200
>
> Initializing CPU#0
>
> PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
>
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
>
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
>
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
>
> Checking aperture...
>
> ACPI: DMAR not present
>
> Memory: 1023492k/1048576k available (2547k kernel code, 24632k 
> reserved, 1289k data, 208k init)
> Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer 
> frequency.. 4800.17 BogoMIPS (lpj=2400087)
> Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
>
> SELinux: Initializing.
>
> selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
>
> Capability LSM initialized as secondary
>
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
>
> CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
>
> CPU: L2 cache: 256K
>
> CPU: L3 cache: 8192K
>
> CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
>
> CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
>
> SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
>
> Freeing SMP alternatives: 32k freed
>
> ACPI: Core revision 20060707
>
> activating NMI Watchdog ... done.
>
> Using local APIC timer interrupts.
>
> result 6249986
>
> Detected 6.249 MHz APIC timer.
>
> Brought up 1 CPUs
>
> testing NMI watchdog ... <4>WARNING: CPU#0: NMI appears to be stuck 
> (0->0)!
> time.c: Using 3.579545 MHz WALL PM GTOD PIT/TSC timer.
>
> time.c: Detected 2400.087 MHz processor.
>
> checking if image is initramfs... it is
>
> Freeing initrd memory: 3263k freed
>
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
>
> ACPI: bus type pci registered
>
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
>
> ACPI: Interpreter enabled
>
> ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
>
> ACPI: No dock devices found.
>
> ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
>
> PCI quirk: region 1f40-1f7f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI
>
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *5 10 11)
>
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 *10 11)
>
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 5 10 *11)
>
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *5 10 11)
>
> Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
>
> pnp: PnP ACPI init
>
> pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
>
> usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
>
> usbcore: registered new driver hub
>
> PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
>
> PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a 
> report
> NetLabel: Initializing
>
> NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
>
> NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
>
> NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
>
> ACPI: DMAR not present
>
> PCI-GART: No AMD northbridge found.
>
> pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x10c0-0x10e1 has been reserved
>
> pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xb044-0xb047 has been reserved
>
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
>
> IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
>
> TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
>
> TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
>
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
>
> TCP reno registered
>
> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
>
> type=2000 audit(1274274214.835:1): initialized
>
> Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
>
> VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
>
> Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
>
> Initializing Cryptographic API
>
> alg: No test for crc32c (crc32c-generic)
>
> ksign: Installing public key data
>
> Loading keyring
>
> - Added public key 4BD2703D74512BB
>
> - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
>
> io scheduler noop registered
>
> io scheduler anticipatory registered
>
> io scheduler deadline registered
>
> io scheduler cfq registered (default)
>
> Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
>
> PCI: PIIX3: Enabling Passive Release on 0000:00:01.0
>
> Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
>
> pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
>
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
>
> Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
>
> Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
>
> Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
>
> �serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>
> 00:0a: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>
> brd: module loaded
>
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
>
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with 
> idebus=xx
> PIIX3: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:01.1
>
> PIIX3: chipset revision 0
>
> PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc100-0xc107, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
>
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc108-0xc10f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
>
> hda: QEMU HARDDISK, ATA DISK drive
>
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>
> hda: max request size: 512KiB
>
> hda: 65536000 sectors (33554 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, (U)DMA
>
> hda: cache flushes supported
>
> hda: hda1 hda2
>
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
>
> usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
>
> usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
>
> drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
>
> PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
>
> serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
>
> serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
>
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
>
> md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
>
> md: bitmap version 4.39
>
> TCP bic registered
>
> Initializing IPsec netlink socket
>
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
>
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
>
> ACPI: (supports S3 S4 S5)
>
> Initalizing network drop monitor service
>
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
>
> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 496k
>
> Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting
>
> Mounting proc filesystem
>
> Mounting sysfs filesystem
>
> Creating /dev
>
> Creating initial device nodes
>
> Setting up hotplug.
>
> input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
>
> Creating block device nodes.
>
> Loading ehci-hcd.ko module
>
> input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input1
>
> Loading ohci-hcd.ko module
>
> Loading uhci-hcd.ko module
>
> USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
>
> Loading jbd.ko module
>
> Loading ext3.ko module
>
> Loading scsi_mod.ko module
>
> SCSI subsystem initialized
>
> Loading sd_mod.ko module
>
> Loading libata.ko module
>
> Loading ata_piix.ko module
>
> Loading dm-mod.ko module
>
> device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
>
> device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.5-ioctl (2007-12-12) initialised: 
> dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Loading dm-log.ko module
>
> Loading dm-mirror.ko module
>
> Loading dm-zero.ko module
>
> Loading dm-snapshot.ko module
>
> Loading dm-mem-cache.ko module
>
> Loading dm-region_hash.ko module
>
> Loading dm-message.ko module
>
> Loading dm-raid45.ko module
>
> device-mapper: dm-raid45: initialized v0.2594l
>
> Waiting for driver initialization.
>
> Scanning and configuring dmraid supported devices
>
> Scanning logical volumes
>
> Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
>
> Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
>
> Activating logical volumes
>
> 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
>
> Trying to resume from /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
>
> No suspend signature on swap, not resuming.
>
> Creating root device.
>
> Mounting root filesystem.
>
> kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
>
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
>
> Setting up other filesystems.
>
> Setting up new root fs
>
> no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
>
> Switching to new root and running init.
>
> unmounting old /dev
>
> unmounting old /proc
>
> unmounting old /sys
>
> SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
>
> type=1404 audit(1274274244.643:2): selinux=0 auid=4294967295 
> ses=4294967295
> INIT: version 2.86 booting
>
> Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client
>
> Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
>
> Setting clock (utc): Wed May 19 06:04:03 PDT 2010 [ OK ]
>
> Starting udev: [ OK ]
>
> Loading default keymap (us): [ OK ]
>
> Setting hostname localhost.localdomain: [ OK ]
>
> Setting up Logical Volume Management: 2 logical volume(s) in volume 
> group "VolGroup00" now active
> [ OK ]
>
> Checking filesystems
>
> Checking all file systems.
>
> [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00: clean, 97808/7645248 files, 855252/7643136 
> blocks
> [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /boot] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/hda1
>
> /boot: clean, 34/26104 files, 15741/104388 blocks
>
> [ OK ]
>
> Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [ OK ]
>
> Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ]
>
> Enabling local filesystem quotas: [ OK ]
>
> Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: [ OK ]
>
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
>
> Entering non-interactive startup
>
> Applying Intel CPU microcode update: [ OK ]
>
> Starting monitoring for VG VolGroup00: 2 logical volume(s) in volume 
> group "VolGroup00" monitored
> [ OK ]
>
> Starting background readahead: [ OK ]
>
> Checking for hardware changes [ OK ]
>
> Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
>
> Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ]
>
> Starting auditd: [ OK ]
>
> Starting system logger: [ OK ]
>
> Starting kernel logger: [ OK ]
>
> Starting irqbalance: [ OK ]
>
> Starting portmap: [ OK ]
>
> Starting NFS statd: [ OK ]
>
> Starting RPC idmapd: [ OK ]
>
> Starting system message bus: [ OK ]
>
> [ OK ] Bluetooth services:[ OK ]
>
> Mounting other filesystems: [ OK ]
>
> Starting PC/SC smart card daemon (pcscd): [ OK ]
>
> Starting acpi daemon: [ OK ]
>
> Starting HAL daemon: [ OK ]
>
> Starting hidd: [ OK ]
>
> Starting autofs: Loading autofs4: [ OK ]
>
> Starting automount: [ OK ]
>
> [ OK ]
>
> Starting hpiod: [ OK ]
>
> Starting hpssd: [ OK ]
>
> Starting sshd: [ OK ]
>
> Starting cups: [ OK ]
>
> Starting xinetd: [ OK ]
>
> Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
>
> Starting sm-client: [ OK ]
>
> Starting console mouse services: [ OK ]
>
> Starting crond: [ OK ]
>
> Starting xfs: [ OK ]
>
> Starting anacron: [ OK ]
>
> Starting atd: [ OK ]
>
> Starting background readahead: [ OK ]
>
> Starting yum-updatesd: [ OK ]
>
> Starting Avahi daemon... Adding MC addr: 01:00:5e:00:00:fb
>
> Adding MC addr: 01:00:5e:00:00:01
>
> [ OK ]
>
> Setting network parameters... [ OK ]
>
> Starting NetworkManager daemon: [ OK ]
>
> Starting smartd: Adding MC addr: 01:00:5e:00:00:01
>
> [ OK ]
>
> mtrr: type mismatch for f0000000,100000 old: uncachable new: 
> write-combining
> mtrr: type mismatch for f0000000,400000 old: uncachable new: 
> write-combining
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.4 (Tikanga)
>
> Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5 on an x86_64
>
> localhost.localdomain login:
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <fajar@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:fajar@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:44 AM, kishore kumar
>     <bodkekumar@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:bodkekumar@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     > Is the serial terminal should be run on Dom 0?
>
>     I'm not sure what you mean by "serial terminal". What happens is, when
>     you set domU config correctly (serial='pty'), everything domU prints
>     to its first serial port (ttyS0/COM1) will be available to xen
>     console. The dom0 itself does not need to have a serial port.
>
>     >  or can I connect to windows
>     > serial port as well ??
>
>     I don't know of any way to redirect windows boot messages to
>     serial port.
>
>     --
>     Fajar
>
>
>
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