I'm following this howto: http://www.howtoforge.com/centos_5.0_xen - but I'm getting stuck at creating the vm01 domU virtual machine. I followed the suggested HOWTO, with a few minor changes (like more RAM & HDD space, and used /dev/hdc as install location Code: What is the name of your virtual machine? <-- [COLOR="Red"]vm01[/COLOR] How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? <-- [COLOR="Red"]512[/COLOR] What would you like to use as the disk (path)? <-- [COLOR="#ff0000"]/vm/vm01.img[/COLOR] How large would you like the disk (/vm/vm01.img) to be (in gigabytes)? <-- [COLOR="#ff0000"]10[/COLOR] Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) <-- [COLOR="#ff0000"]no[/COLOR] What is the install location? <-- [COLOR="#ff0000"]/dev/hdc[/COLOR] And then I get this: Funny enough, the vm is created, but I don't think it's done properly, as I didn't get the setup screen
You need Code: --cdrom /dev/hdc Take a look at the examples in the man page http://linux.die.net/man/1/virt-install
thanx, I thnk I found the problem. My system / kernel / something doesn't see all the RAM in the PC. I have 2GB installed, but virt-install doesn't see it? This is rather interesting: Yet, dmesg sees the 2GB
There is a kernel option you need to append at the boot loader prompt to get it to see all the memory, i had a similar problem, but i have forgotten what the option is, it on my dev system at home.
I figured as much, since the normal kernel detects the full 2GB RAM. I would have thought it could be a PAE problem, but I don't have 4GB RAM (yet), so it's not that. thanx for the pointer, I'll see what I can get. P.S. I would have thought that you'd put it on your website?
ok, I found the patch to fit it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250299 But I still can't create the domU's, how do I debug it? tail -f /var/log/xen/xend.log shows this: Any suggestions for this?
