Hello, I've followed the instructions from perfect xen howto for etch on a pacifica platform. I expanded it to use sw raid5 and lvm on it. Creating multiple domUs using debootstrap isn't a problem. But I can't find out howto convert an existing etch vmware image to an domU xen lvm. I followed this http://ian.blenke.com/vmware/vmdk/xen/hvm/qemu Howto and done: 1. vmware-vdiskmanager -r etch.vmdk -t 0 etch-flattened.vmdk 2. qemu-img convert etch-flattened.vmdk etch.img 3. lvcreate -L 8G -n etch-hda raid 4. dd if=etch.img of=/dev/raid/etch-hda bs=1M 5. cp /etch/xen/otherxen.mydomain.local.cfg /etch/xen/etch.mydomain.local.cfg 6. Then I changed in the new config file the this variables: disk = [ 'phy:raid/etch-hda,sda1,w' ] name = 'etch.mydomain.local' vif = [ 'ip=192.168.1.110' ] When I now try to start the domain with xm create /etc/xen/etch.mydomain.local the output is: Code: Using config file "/etc/xen/etch.mydomain.local.cfg". Started domain etch.mydomain.local But an Code: xm list don't show up the domain and I can't connect to it using xm console ... cat /var/log/xen/xend.log gives me some errors telling me the domain is already running - see atachment. I hope somebody had succesfully converted an vmdk to xen. Because I can't find something usefull on google
I followed some link once on converting vmware using qemu. I tried the trixbox vmware image and had issues getting the server started. What i had to go to get it working was mount the image locally, then copy the kernel module version I wanted to use into the /lib/modules/kernel.x.x.x.xen/ and then chroot to the root filesystem of that image and then run mkinitrd to create a new initrd. it worked when started it but I noticed is that it never worked from command line and only through virt-manager.. weird but there's some difference in the way 'xm create' and virt-manager start their domU's. PHP: kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen" # new initrd ramdisk = "/boot/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen-trixbox.img" uuid = "7a9dbaa3-ad6c-bad3-b515-806bd0e37320" memory = 128 vif = [ "mac=00:16:29:36:e3:c4, bridge=xenbr0" ] vfb = [ "type=vnc,vncdisplay=10,vncpasswd=trixbox" ] root = "/dev/sda1 ro" disk = [ "file:/xen/trixbox/trixbox2.4.img,sda,w" ] name = "trixbox" #bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub" on_poweroff = "destroy" on_reboot = "restart" on_crash = "restart" maxmem = 256
