Testing Xen. Some quick questions.

[Adam Huda]

> If you add noreboot to the xen line, it won't reboot.  If you're on an
> smp box, you're probably hitting #180535.  maxcpus=1 on the kernel  
> line
> will work around and Rik is hot on the case.

Thanks, maxcpus=1 did the trick.

> Hrmm -- I haven't seen this.  How does it die?  Does the guest just  
> hang
> or ... ?

It hangs when it gets to the package:

glibc-common-2.3.90-36: Common binaries and locale data for glibc

Looking at xm top, no network traffic is flowing.

On Feb 8, 2006, at 3:04 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 14:47 -0800, Adam Huda wrote:
>> Found this problem though:
> [snip]
>> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'
>
> Fixed this this afternoon.
>
>> Also vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.43_FC5 hypervisor won't boot. It starts to boot
>> and then the machine immediately restarts. Is there anyway I can
>> figure out the actual error?
>
> If you add noreboot to the xen line, it won't reboot.  If you're on an
> smp box, you're probably hitting #180535.  maxcpus=1 on the kernel  
> line
> will work around and Rik is hot on the case.
>
>> I still haven't got a guest installed using the xenguest-install.py
>> process. When the actual installation starts, it installs a few
>> packages and then dies.
>
> Hrmm -- I haven't seen this.  How does it die?  Does the guest just  
> hang
> or ... ?
>
> Jeremy
>
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