Re: [Xen-users] xenconsole help.

[Todd Deshane <todd.deshane@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Ciaran Kendellen
<ciaran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Having installed 2x XCP hosts and added them to a resource pool, configured
> shared storage and generally got ready for operations, I'm currently
> struggling to see anything meaningful of my VM's!!!
>
> I started installing centos form template, but couldn't connect to the
> instance that (successfully) created to complete installation, so, on the
> suggestion of a user here, I've imported the xvp appliance, but can't connect
> to the console to complete the config.
>

What are you using to connect to the console?

XCP works a little different from the base Xen hypervisor. I would
recommend to use openxenmanager to connect to the console of the xvp
appliance to get it set up.

Some other information that may be helpful to you:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen_Cloud_Platform:_Access_to_VM_console
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Projects

> I'm getting :
>
> xenconsole: could not read tty from store: no such file or directory
>
> Now, a cursory google of the above message generally seems to tell me
> xenconsoled is not running, but I've tried running it again, and verified its
> running by :
>
> [root@xen01 ~]# ps ax | grep xenconsoled
>  6448 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/sbin/xenconsoled
>
> But still no joy!
>
> Anybody got any ideas on what I should try next? I've checked what I've found
> to be the usual suspects and just can not make my way past this first vital
> step, so I can actually connect to the VMs I create and can complete
> installations etc.
>
> If it helps, the params of the appliance I'm trying to connect to follows.
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Ciaran.
>
>
>                    name-label ( RW): xvpappliance
>              name-description ( RW): Xen VNC Proxy Appliance
>                  user-version ( RW): 1
>                 is-a-template ( RW): false
>                 is-a-snapshot ( RO): false
>                   snapshot-of ( RO): <not in database>
>                     snapshots ( RO):
>                 snapshot-time ( RO): 19700101T00:00:00Z
>                 snapshot-info ( RO):
>                        parent ( RO): <not in database>
>                      children ( RO):
>             is-control-domain ( RO): false
>                   power-state ( RO): running
>                 memory-actual ( RO): 268435456
>                 memory-target ( RO): <expensive field>
>               memory-overhead ( RO): 4194304
>             memory-static-max ( RW): 268435456
>            memory-dynamic-max ( RW): 268435456
>            memory-dynamic-min ( RW): 268435456
>             memory-static-min ( RW): 16777216
>              suspend-VDI-uuid ( RO): <not in database>
>                  VCPUs-params (MRW):
>                     VCPUs-max ( RW): 1
>              VCPUs-at-startup ( RW): 1
>        actions-after-shutdown ( RW): Destroy
>          actions-after-reboot ( RW): Restart
>           actions-after-crash ( RW): Restart
>                 console-uuids (SRO): 1b361d75-5acf-2016-805f-37cca4dab44e
>                      platform (MRW): nx: false; acpi: true; apic: true; pae:
> true; viridian: true
>            allowed-operations (SRO): changing_dynamic_range; pool_migrate;
> changing_VCPUs_live; suspend; hard_reboot; hard_shutdown; clean_reboot;
> clean_shutdown; pause; checkpoint; snapshot
>            current-operations (SRO):
>            blocked-operations (MRW):
>           allowed-VBD-devices (SRO): <expensive field>
>           allowed-VIF-devices (SRO): <expensive field>
>                possible-hosts ( RO): <expensive field>
>               HVM-boot-policy ( RW):
>               HVM-boot-params (MRW): order:
>         HVM-shadow-multiplier ( RW): 1.000
>                     PV-kernel ( RW):
>                    PV-ramdisk ( RW):
>                       PV-args ( RW):
>                PV-legacy-args ( RW):
>                 PV-bootloader ( RW): pygrub
>            PV-bootloader-args ( RW):
>           last-boot-CPU-flags ( RO):
>              last-boot-record ( RO): <expensive field>
>                   resident-on ( RO): a8fa813f-ffd5-4083-8b7f-c5edde895412
>                      affinity ( RW): <not in database>
>                  other-config (MRW): last_shutdown_time: 20110426T12:57:37Z;
> last_shutdown_action: Restart; last_shutdown_initiator: external;
> last_shutdown_reason: rebooted; disable_pv_vnc: 1; import_task:
> OpaqueRef:bac73e23-0444-63c0-4f61-49eed83da26f; mac_seed: 86439420-4d5f-1605-
> b433-4e66d52c439f; linux_template: true; install-repository:
> http://192.168.12.3/dvd; machine-address-size: 36; rhel5: true; install-
> methods: cdrom,nfs,http,ftp
>                        dom-id ( RO): 3
>               recommendations ( RO): <restrictions><restriction field="memory-
> static-max" max="34359738368" /><restriction field="vcpus-max" max="8"
> /><restriction property="number-of-vbds" max="7" /><restriction
> property="number-of-vifs" max="7" /></restrictions>
>                 xenstore-data (MRW):
>                 ha-always-run ( RW): false
>           ha-restart-priority ( RW):
>                         blobs ( RO):
>                    start-time ( RO): 20110426T12:58:06Z
>                  install-time ( RO): 19700101T00:00:00Z
>                  VCPUs-number ( RO): 1
>             VCPUs-utilisation (MRO): <expensive field>
>                    os-version (MRO): name: CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
> (xvpappliance 1.9.1-1); uname: 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5xen; distro: centos; major:
> 5; minor: 5
>            PV-drivers-version (MRO): major: 5; minor: 5; micro: 0; build:
> 25727
>         PV-drivers-up-to-date ( RO): true
>                        memory (MRO):
>                         disks (MRO):
>                      networks (MRO):
>                         other (MRO): platform-feature-multiprocessor-suspend:
> 1
>                          live ( RO): true
>    guest-metrics-last-updated ( RO): 20110426T12:59:49Z
>                   cooperative ( RO): <expensive field>
>             protection-policy ( RW): <not in database>
>         is-snapshot-from-vmpp ( RO): false
>                          tags (SRW):
>
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Todd Deshane
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http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html

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