[Fedora-xen] Problem Installing Fedora 7 as a Guest on Xen machine

[Samad, Alex]

Hi 

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Hi
I have run into a problem installing fedora 7 as a guest on a Xen machine.
The host machine is a amd64 - Debian lenny install. Running 2.6.20-1-xen-amd64
xm info                                                                                                                       
host                   : debxen                                                                                                                
release                : 2.6.20-1-xen-amd64                                                                                                    
version                : #1 SMP Tue Apr 24 22:23:22 UTC 2007                                                                                   
machine                : x86_64                                                                                                                
nr_cpus                : 4                                                                                                                     
nr_nodes               : 1                                                                                                                     
sockets_per_node       : 2                                                                                                                     
cores_per_socket       : 2                                                                                                                     
threads_per_core       : 1                                                                                                                     
cpu_mhz                : 2800                                                                                                                  
hw_caps                : 178bfbff:ebd3fbff:00000000:00000010:00002001:00000000:0000001f                                                        
total_memory           : 8191                                                                                                                  
free_memory            : 1                                                                                                                     
xen_major              : 3                                                                                                                     
xen_minor              : 0                                                                                                                     
xen_extra              : .3-1                                                                                                                  
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64                                                          
xen_pagesize           : 4096                                                                                                                  
platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000                                                                                         
xen_changeset          : Tue Oct 17 22:09:52 2006 +0100                                                                                        
cc_compiler            : gcc version 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)                                                             
cc_compile_by          : ultrotter                                                                                                             
cc_compile_domain      : debian.org                                                                                                            
cc_compile_date        : Fri Nov  3 00:21:27 CET 2006                                                                                          
xend_config_format     : 2   
I have downloaded the fedora 7 DVD, I have extracted the xen vmlinuz and zen initrd.img
This is my fedora7.cfg
#                                                                                                                                              
#  Kernel + memory size                                                                                                                        
#                                                                                                                                              
kernel      = '/etc/xen/data/fedora7/vmlinuz'                                                                                                  
ramdisk     = '/etc/xen/data/fedora7/initrd.img'                                                                                               
memory      = '1024'                                                                                                                           
extra           = 'pnpacpi=off sync_console vnc vncpassword=qwerty text vncconnect=16.144.29.11'                                               
#bootloader     = '/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/bin/pygrub'                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                               
#                                                                                                                                              
#  Disk device(s).                                                                                                                             
#                                                                                                                                              
disk        = [ 'phy:vglocal/fedora7-disk,xvda,w' ]                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                               
#                                                                                                                                              
#  Hostname                                                                                                                                    
#                                                                                                                                              
name        = 'fedora7'                                                                                                                        
#
#  Networking
#
dhcp        = 'dhcp'
#vif         = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0' ]
vif         = [ '' ]
#
#  Behaviour
#
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'

serial = "pty"
localtime = 0
vcpus = 2
I tried something similar with RHEL5 and it worked, fedora7 is getting stuck
>From xm console fedora7
io scheduler noop registered                                                                                                                   
io scheduler anticipatory registered                                                                                                           
io scheduler deadline registered                                                                                                               
io scheduler cfq registered (default)                                                                                                          
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5                                                                                                
rtc: IRQ 8 is not free.                                                                                                                        
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2                                                                                                                
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones                                                                                                  
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize                                                                         
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0                                                                                 
Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0                                                                                             
Event-channel device installed.                                                                                                                
usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual                                                                                              
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev                                                                                                
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid                                                                                                
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver                                                                                         
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.                                                                                         
i8042.c: No controller found.                                                                                                                  
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice                                                                                                    
TCP bic registered                                                                                                                             
Initializing XFRM netlink socket                                                                                                               
NET: Registered protocol family 1                                                                                                              
NET: Registered protocol family 17                                                                                                             
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712                                                                                                
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0                                                                                                    
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 938k

I not sure what is mean to come after here for me to guess where it might be getting stuck.  Can any one provide any hints or know what is going wrong.  Maybe there is a mis match of the xen versions ???
Thanks
Alex
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