Re: [Xen-users] XAPI on debian installation issue

[Todd Deshane <todd.deshane@xxxxxxx>]

2011/7/18 Jonathan Ludlam <Jonathan.Ludlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> OK, there's a new blktap deb there (which you can tell by the date - at some 
> point I'll sort things so that the version numbers aren't all 0.1 and the 
> release numbers aren't all 1 :-)
>

The install works. I've cleaned up the wiki page a bit too.

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XAPI_on_debian

I think I am running into a grub2 problem at the moment though. It
won't seem to boot to the Xen hypervisor (I'm grub blind since I am
doing this over a serial connection that doesn't show grub).

I'll try to work through the grub2 issue tomorrow, but any suggestions
are welcome.

here is the /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen file that comes with debian unstable:

http://pastebin.com/KivyRSsM

Any ideas as to why it won't boot into the Xen hypervisor?

I've done this type of troubleshooting already:

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems#head-26434581604cc8357d9762aaaf040e8d87b37752

It can't even insert the modules for xen-evtchn (no such device),
which makes sense if (like I suspect) the Xen hypervisor is not
actually there.

Xen booting messages don't show up in dmesg or /var/log/messages, so
grub2 seems like the problem for sure.

Thanks,
Todd

> Jon
>
> On 18 Jul 2011, at 11:10, Jonathan Ludlam wrote:
>
>> Hi Sébastien,
>>
>> Thanks for testing this out - as I wrote on the wiki page, I didn't really 
>> expect any of it to work yet, so if anything actually did work, that's a 
>> bonus! :-)
>>
>> On 17 Jul 2011, at 20:33, Sébastien RICCIO wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm currently trying to install xapi on debian (unstable), following the
>>> following wiki page:
>>> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XAPI_on_debian
>>>
>>> 1. Install squeeze 32-bits (it's not specified on the wiki, but I guess
>>> it wont work with 64-bit as the xapi *.deb files are for 32).
>>>
>>
>> Yes, 32 bit only at the moment. We've not tried any of this stuff in 64 bit, 
>> so we're concentrating on that at the moment. I'd be very interested in 
>> knowing what happens on 64 bit though, and it is something that we'll be 
>> wanting to look into longer term.
>>
>>>   note: you must leave an unused 1mb partition somewhere when
>>>            creating your partitions or grub2 used in sid will complain
>>>            during the dist-upgrade. This will result into an unbootable
>>>            system. (at least it happened to me)
>>>
>>
>> Interesting, I didn't have this problem - when I upgraded I chose to throw 
>> out my original grub.conf and use the new one, and it does seem to boot.
>>
>>> 2. Edit sources.list to use unstable instead of squeeze
>>>
>>
>> ..snip..
>>
>>> box# dpkg -i *deb
>>>
>>> ----8<----------
>>> Selecting previously deselected package blktap.
>>> (Reading database ... 37780 files and directories currently installed.)
>>> Unpacking blktap (from blktap_0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Selecting previously deselected package blktap-dkms.
>>> Unpacking blktap-dkms (from blktap-dkms_0.1_all.deb) ...
>>> Selecting previously deselected package fe.
>>> Unpacking fe (from fe_0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Selecting previously deselected package squeezed.
>>> Unpacking squeezed (from squeezed_0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Selecting previously deselected package v6d.
>>> Unpacking v6d (from v6d_0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Selecting previously deselected package xapi.
>>> Unpacking xapi (from xapi_0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Selecting previously deselected package xen-sm.
>>> Unpacking xen-sm (from xen-sm_0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Setting up blktap (0.1-1) ...
>>> Setting up blktap-dkms (0.1) ...
>>> dkms.conf: Error! No 'BUILT_MODULE_NAME' directive specified for record #0.
>>> Error! Bad conf file.
>>> File: /tmp/dkms.rTkg1a/dkms_binaries_only/dkms.conf
>>> does not represent a valid dkms.conf file.
>>>
>>>
>>> Unable to load DKMS tarball /usr/share/blktap-dkms/blktap-0.1.dkms.tar.gz.
>>> Common causes include:
>>> - You must be using DKMS 2.1.0.0 or later to support binaries only
>>>  distribution specific archives.
>>> - Corrupt distribution specific archive
>>>
>>>
>>> dpkg: error processing blktap-dkms (--install):
>>> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
>>>
>>
>> Right, a broken package. We've not got a nice way of making these things yet 
>> - I've got some suggestions from Daniel Stodden on how to proceed, so 
>> between us maybe we'll be able to make something that works. When I've got 
>> something new to test I'll let you know.
>>
>> Thanks again for helping out!
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>>
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