[Xen-users] Error: Device 0 (vif) could notbeconnected. Hotplugscripts not working

[Helmut Wieser <helmut.wieser@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I'm having a similar issue as Ian Tobin some weeks ago here: 
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00645.html
I'm using Debian Squeeze amd64, downloaded the experimental debian 
xen-amd64 kernel with pv_ops support.
linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common-xen_2.6.32-13_amd64.deb
linux-headers-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64_2.6.32-13_amd64.deb
linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64_2.6.32-13_amd64.deb
linux-kbuild-2.6.32_2.6.32-1_amd64.deb
xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64_2.6.32-13_amd64.deb

I downloaded and compiled Xen 4.0 as specified here: 
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen4.0
I used the command
hg clone -r RELEASE-4.0.0 http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-4.0-testing.hg
to check out the sources. Compile and install went without a hitch.

Since debian squeeze uses grub2 it took me a while to find a working config.
This is my 40_custom for grub2:
menuentry "Xen 4.0.0 / Squeeze Kernel 2.6.32-3-amd64 pvops" --class 
debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
        recordfail=1
        if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
        set quiet=1
        insmod ext2
        insmod ext4
        set root='(hd1,1)'
        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 
91ab2378-76a4-4ab6-9065-078307ce8268
        multiboot /boot/xen-4.0.0.gz dummy=dummy dom0_mem=512M
        module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 dummy=dummy 
root=UUID=91ab2378-76a4-4ab6-9065-078307ce8268 ro quiet
        module /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64
}

If I use "xm create /path/to/config.cfg"  the machine is paused, and 
after 100 seconds I get "Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. 
Hotplug scripts not working".
I run udevd version 154, uuid is installed.

When I start "udevadm monitor" while the xm create command runs, this is 
the output:
monitor will print the received events for:
UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing
KERNEL - the kernel uevent

KERNEL[1275038753.413971] add      /devices/virtual/net/tap19.0 (net)
UDEV  [1275038753.419757] add      /devices/virtual/net/tap19.0 (net)
KERNEL[1275038854.255484] remove   /devices/virtual/net/tap19.0 (net)
UDEV  [1275038854.259336] remove   /devices/virtual/net/tap19.0 (net)

This is my virtual machine config:
import os, re
arch = os.uname()[4]
if re.search('64', arch):
        arch_libdir = 'lib64'
else:
        arch_libdir = 'lib'

kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
builder='hvm'
memory=2048
shadow_memory = 8
name = "xenwin7"
vif = [ ' bridge=eth0, mac=00:16:3e:00:12:34' ]
acpi = 1
apic = 1
disk = [ 'file:/home/hwieser/xen/domains/win01/disk.img,hda,w', 
'file:/home/hwieser/xen/domains/windows7_ultimate.iso,hdc:cdrom,r' ]
device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
boot="dc"
sdl = 0
vnc = 1
vncconsole = 1
vncpasswd = ''
serial = 'pty'
usbdevice = 'tablet'


First I thought the issue was because the netbk module is missing, but 
it's compiled in the kernel.
Here are the relevant parts of the .config:
# fgrep -i xen /boot/config-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64
CONFIG_XEN=y
CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=32
CONFIG_XEN_SAVE_RESTORE=y
# CONFIG_XEN_DEBUG_FS is not set
CONFIG_SWIOTLB_XEN=y
CONFIG_MICROCODE_XEN=y
CONFIG_XEN_DOM0=y
CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST=y
CONFIG_XEN_DOM0_PCI=y
# CONFIG_XEN_PCI_PASSTHROUGH is not set
CONFIG_PCI_XEN=y
CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_FRONTEND=y
CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND=m
CONFIG_NETXEN_NIC=m
CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND=m
CONFIG_XEN_KBDDEV_FRONTEND=y
CONFIG_HVC_XEN=y
CONFIG_XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND=y
CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON=y
CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES=y
CONFIG_XEN_DEV_EVTCHN=m
CONFIG_XEN_BACKEND=y
CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND=y
CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND=y
CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_TAP=m
CONFIG_XEN_BLKBACK_PAGEMAP=y
CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND=y
CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND_VPCI=y
# CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND_PASS is not set
# CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND_SLOT is not set
# CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND_CONTROLLER is not set
# CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BE_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_XENFS=m
CONFIG_XEN_COMPAT_XENFS=y
CONFIG_XEN_SYS_HYPERVISOR=y
# CONFIG_XEN_PLATFORM_PCI is not set
CONFIG_XEN_MCE=y
CONFIG_XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND=y
CONFIG_XEN_GNTDEV=y
CONFIG_XEN_S3=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR_XEN=m


This is my lsmod output:
Module                  Size  Used by
virtio_net             10529  0
netxen_nic             72759  0
nls_utf8                1208  0
ufs                    56490  0
qnx4                    6194  0
hfsplus                65286  0
hfs                    37471  0
minix                  21213  0
ntfs                  162876  0
vfat                    7900  0
msdos                   6202  0
fat                    40054  2 vfat,msdos
jfs                   140163  0
xfs                   437053  0
exportfs                3170  1 xfs
reiserfs              194188  0
ext4                  285355  0
jbd2                   66951  1 ext4
crc16                   1319  1 ext4
ext2                   52985  0
blktap                 28086  0
virtio_blk              4225  0
virtio                  3309  2 virtio_net,virtio_blk
pci_hotplug            21203  0
nf_conntrack_ipv4       9833  1
nf_defrag_ipv4          1139  1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
xt_state                1303  1
nf_conntrack           46567  2 nf_conntrack_ipv4,xt_state
tun                    10828  0
xt_physdev              1508  2
iptable_filter          2258  1
ip_tables              13899  1 iptable_filter
x_tables               12845  3 xt_state,xt_physdev,ip_tables
xen_evtchn              4259  1
bridge                 39614  0
stp                     1440  1 bridge
xenfs                   9568  1
xen_blkfront            8774  0
xen_netfront           15212  0
loop                   11783  0
firewire_sbp2          11498  0
snd_hda_codec_realtek   235506  1
snd_hda_intel          19875  0
snd_hda_codec          54244  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               5380  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                60535  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              15582  1 snd_pcm
nouveau               353136  1
ttm                    40066  1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper         20065  1 nouveau
drm                   143585  3 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
snd                    46446  6 
snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
i2c_algo_bit            4225  1 nouveau
soundcore               4598  1 snd
i2c_core               15712  4 nouveau,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
snd_page_alloc          6249  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
usbhid                 33260  0
processor              36077  0
tpm_tis                 7336  0
evdev                   7352  3
tpm                     9917  1 tpm_tis
button                  4650  1 nouveau
hid                    62841  1 usbhid
tpm_bios                4521  1 tpm
psmouse                49777  0
pcspkr                  1699  0
wmi                     4323  0
serio_raw               3752  0
acpi_processor          5087  1 processor,[permanent]
ext3                  106550  1
jbd                    37101  1 ext3
mbcache                 5050  3 ext4,ext2,ext3
usb_storage            39449  0
sg                     18760  0
sr_mod                 12602  0
sd_mod                 29777  3
cdrom                  29415  1 sr_mod
crc_t10dif              1276  1 sd_mod
firewire_ohci          19468  0
firewire_core          36752  2 firewire_sbp2,firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t               1307  1 firewire_core
uhci_hcd               18537  0
ahci                   32358  2
tg3                    95679  0
libphy                 14054  1 tg3
libata                133536  1 ahci
scsi_mod              122133  6 
firewire_sbp2,usb_storage,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
ehci_hcd               31071  0
usbcore               121991  5 usbhid,usb_storage,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
nls_base                6377  8 
nls_utf8,hfsplus,hfs,ntfs,vfat,fat,jfs,usbcore
floppy                 49087  0
thermal                11674  0
thermal_sys            11942  2 processor,thermal

And uname -a gives:
Linux jeatxenhw 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Mon May 17 20:24:46 UTC 2010 
x86_64 GNU/Linux
The vm is running windows 7, and I got it up and running once. I could 
VNC in and start the install.
As it wanted to reboot after the install it was botched and never worked 
again.
Assistance would be greatly appreciated.

regards,
Helmut

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