Re: [Xen-users] Fedora 19 installation with virt-install

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2013-07-28 at 13:14 +0200, Alberto wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to install a DomU with Fedora 19 in a Debian Host Dom0 with the
> following versions...

Debian Squeeze from the looks of things? But with some Debian Wheezy
installed (e.g. xenutils and xenstore have been upgraded, the rest of
Xen and the kernel has not)?


> ii  libc6-xen:i386                        2.13-38
>      i386         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries [Xen version]
> ii  libxen-4.1                            4.1.4-3+deb7u1
>      i386         Public libs for Xen
> ii  libxenstore3.0                        4.1.4-3+deb7u1
>      i386         Xenstore communications library for Xen
> ii  linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common-xen     2.6.32-48squeeze1
>      i386         Common header files for Linux 2.6.32-5-xen
> ii  linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686          2.6.32-48squeeze1
>      i386         Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs, Xen dom0 support
> ii  linux-image-xen-686                   2.6.32+29
>      i386         Linux for modern PCs (meta-package), Xen dom0 support
> ii  xen-docs-4.0                          4.0.1-5.10
>      all          Documentation for Xen
> ii  xen-hypervisor-4.0-i386               4.0.1-5.10
>      i386         The Xen Hypervisor on i386
> ii  xen-qemu-dm-4.0                       4.0.1-2+squeeze3
>      i386         Xen Qemu Device Model virtual machine hardware emulator
> ii  xen-tools                             4.3.1-1
>      all          Tools to manage Xen virtual servers
> ii  xen-utils-4.0                         4.0.1-5.10
>      i386         XEN administrative tools
> ii  xen-utils-common                      4.1.4-3+deb7u1
>      all          Xen administrative tools - common files
> ii  xenstore-utils                        4.1.4-3+deb7u1
>      i386         Xenstore utilities for Xen
> ii  xenwatch                              0.5.4-3
>      i386         Virtualization utilities, mostly for Xen
> 
> 
> The line what I use for the installation is...
> 
> root@apevia:/etc/xen# virt-install --name=fedora19 --ram 512 --disk
> path=/dev/MVvg/FEDORA19lv --location
> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/19/Fedora/i386/os/
> --description="Fedora" --network bridge=xenbr1 --hvm --vnc
> 
> Empezando la instalaciïn...
> Obteniendo archivo .treeinfo...
>                                                              | 2.4 kB
>   00:00 ...
> Obteniendo archivo vmlinuz...
>                                                              | 9.4 MB
>   00:17 ...
> Obteniendo archivo initrd.img...
>                                                              |  61 MB
>   02:01 ...
> Creando dominio...
>                                                              |    0 B
>   00:00
> No protocol specified
> No se puede abrir el visor:
> Run 'virt-viewer --help' to see a full list of available command line
> options
> La instalaciïn del dominio continïa en progreso. Puede reconectarse a
> la consola para completar el proceso de instalaciïn.

Please can you rerun this command with prefixed with "LANG=C" so we can
all read the messages.

> It seems that the installation starts the DomU System, but after a few
> seconds, it dies.  The XML file remains but the machine will not start.
> 
> Can somebody help me?
> Thank you so much
> 
> 
> 
> LOGS FILES

The content of "xm dmesg" might contain a clue. More importantly since
this looks like a guest crash would be to try to collect some guest
logs.
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Reporting_Bugs_against_Xen#Guest_console_logs
should help.

Ian.


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