Re: [Xen-users] centos 5.6 upgrade to 4.1 - no DomUs listed

[Todd Deshane <todd.deshane@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Andy Howell <AndyHowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Todd,
>
> On 05/17/2011 04:31 PM, Todd Deshane wrote:
>
>> These wiki pages are important for those upgrading to Xen 4.1 and higher.
>>
>> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen4.1
>> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/MigrationGuideToXen4.1%2B
>> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/HostConfiguration/Networking
>
> Thanks. I had come across those. I had set the networking as described.
>
> The problem is that xen does not list any of my existing domains, the config 
> files of
> which live under /etc/xen/
>
> For example, /etc/xen/trillian:
>
> name = "trillian"
> uuid = "00a45ea5-8130-3b65-0700-2c30142254ac"
> maxmem = 512
> memory = 512
> vcpus = 1
> bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub"
> on_poweroff = "destroy"
> on_reboot = "restart"
> on_crash = "restart"
> vfb = [ "type=vnc,vncunused=1" ]
> disk = [ "tap:aio:/virtual2/trillian.img,xvda,w" ]
> vif = [ "mac=00:16:3e:67:21:78, ip=192.168.10.23, bridge=xenbr2", 
> "mac=00:16:36:55:33:4c,
> ip=172.16.1.6, bridge=xenbr0,script=vif-bridge,vifname=vif1.1" ]
> ip = "192.168.10.23"
> netmask = "255.255.255.255"
> gateway = "192.168.10.1"
>
> The migration note says: "Arbitrary embedded python is not supported. 
> Therefore it will be
> necessary to remove any python code from your configuration files."
>

The configuration file above looks fine to me.

The arbitrary python refers to things like detecting the architecture
with python sys code, etc.

What is the output of running the command: xl create -c trillian


> I assume that does not mean the list constructs like:
>
> vfb = [ "type=vnc,vncunused=1" ]
>
>>> The end result I'm after is to create a Ubuntu 11.4 DomU. Is this possible?
>>>
>>
>> A domU based on Ubuntu 11.04 is certainly possible
>
> Great.
>>
>> A Linux guest can run as either normal PV (paravirtualized) or PVonHVM
>> (http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenLinuxPVonHVMdrivers)
>
> I'll check that out.
>
>> Hope that information helps.
>>
>
> It does. At least I know what I'm trying to do is possible. Thats half the 
> battle :)
>
> Thanks,
>
>        Andy
>
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