Hi, I had a problem configuring the Guest OS on my Ubuntu Hardy amd64 server. Got this error: # cat /etc/xen/Xen-Web1.cfg BLANK SCREEN! ------ I have some questions regarding the creation of filesystem. First these are my current setup: My current partition # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000360b1 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 36 289138+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 37 1032 8000370 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda3 1033 2248 9767520 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda4 2249 19390 137693115 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000c6918 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 36 289138+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb2 37 1032 8000370 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb3 1033 2248 9767520 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb4 2249 19390 137693115 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/md0: 295 MB, 295960576 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 72256 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md1: 8192 MB, 8192262144 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 2000064 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md2: 10.0 GB, 10001842176 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 2441856 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md3: 140.9 GB, 140997623808 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 34423248 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/md3 doesn't contain a valid partition table My fstab # cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/md2 UUID=4885c421-5c69-43ec-9d93-f895046f3862 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /dev/md0 UUID=8cdb4531-3cb5-43a6-806c-9f20a2e0f844 /boot ext3 relatime 0 2 # /dev/md3 UUID=f639a70f-411e-4db0-b25a-521c1aeb9f88 /var ext3 relatime 0 2 # /dev/md1 UUID=2efb9cb0-c135-4b2e-803b-0f55638d34e2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on varrun 3.9G 60K 3.9G 1% /var/run varlock 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /var/lock udev 3.9G 72K 3.9G 1% /dev devshm 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm lrm 3.9G 18M 3.9G 1% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-xen/volatile /dev/md0 274M 47M 213M 19% /boot /dev/md3 131G 15G 110G 12% /var overflow 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /tmp Here's my questions: 1. Do I have to create a partition just for Xen Guest OS storage? Or can I use an existing partition? I have a machine with soft RAID1 installed. I would like to use /var/vm for my Guest OS and it is mounted under /dev/md3, filesystem is ext3. Finally, do I need to execute step 3? 2. The section: # debootstrap --arch amd64 hardy /var/vm http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu Will this create a new directory for Guest OS? Or should I manually create it? I want to name the directory for my Guest OS as Xen-Web1? # mkdir /var/vm/ 3. In the section: Post creation of filesystem in target partition mount it to /mnt: The command: # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt Can I do this instead? Is this correct? #mount /dev/md3 /var/vm/ 4. What is the right equivalent for the following command considering my setup? Once done, prepare the chroot environment for /mnt: # mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev # mount proc /mnt/proc -t proc # chroot /mnt /bin/bash Can I do this instead: # mount --bind /dev /var/vm/dev # mount proc /var/vm/dev # chroot /var/vm /bin/bash Hope you can help me and thanks in advance. James
Just wanna add, initiating the ff command was successful: # debootstrap --arch amd64 hardy /var/vm http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu # ls -la /var/vm/xen/domains/Xen-Web1/ total 14448428 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-10-14 03:26 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-10-14 03:26 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485760000 2008-10-14 16:53 disk.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4294967296 2008-10-14 17:00 swap.img There's no content for /etc/xen/Xen-Web1.cfg. Though I tried manually creating the config after saving it always delete everything. # xm list Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 7931 4 r----- 404.8 Hope you can help me.
Did you try with xen tools : xen-create-image --hostname=xen1.example.com --size=2Gb --swap=256Mb --ide --ip=192.168.2.123 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=192.168.2.1 --force --dir=/home/xen --memory=256Mb --arch=amd64 --kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-xen --initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-xen --install-method=debootstrap --dist=hardy --mirror=http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ --passwd And after that you need to replace "file:" with "tap:aio" in the cfg file. This will create you an image file but you can mount it and copy the content to a partition afterward. You simply need to change the line "file:/home/xen.../disk.img" with something like "phy:/dev/md3,hda1,w" Hope it helps... More details : http://blogama.org/node/9
