[Fedora-xen] xm create -c recovery fails

[Dustin Henning]

Try this:
disk = [ 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/recovery.img,hda,w'
       , 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/WindowsXP.img,hdb,w'
#      , ',hdc:cdrom,r'
       , 'phy:/dev/hda,hdd,r'
       ]

Dustin

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of John Summerfield
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 21:22
To: fedora-xen at redhat.com
Subject: [Fedora-xen] xm create -c recovery fails

I'm running F8, xen-3.1.2-1.fc8, 2.6.21.7-2890.fc9xen.

I have a xen configuration which contains this stanza:
disk = [ 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/recovery.img,hda,w'
       , 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/WindowsXP.img,hdb,w'
#      , ',hdc:cdrom,r'
       , 'phy:hda,ioemu:hdd,r'
       ]

If I comment out the line containing "'phy:hda,ioemu:hdd,r' then the xm create 
line works and the guest starts up and runs fine. Whether I have "ioemu" 
doesn't make any obvious difference, google suggested it.

With the stanza as above, it fails:
[root at potoroo ~]# time xm create -c recovery
Using config file "/etc/xen/recovery".
Error: Device 5696 (vbd) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working.

real    1m44.750s
user    0m0.080s
sys     0m0.067s
[root at potoroo ~]# 

The only other thing I see is the VNC console opens, but it displays with a 
white background.

These are the messages logged to xend.log:
[2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (image:129) buildDomain os=hvm dom=27 vcpus=1
[2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (XendDomainInfo:1458) createDevice: vfb : 
{'vncunused': 1, 'other_config': {'vncunused': 
1}, 'uuid': '6c9425f6-7800-4325-bcd7-b917ce2f8955'}
[2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (XendDomainInfo:1458) createDevice: vbd : 
{'uuid': '0f4b1edf-a164-6b3a-ebd2-395532720861', 'bootable': 
1, 'driver': 'paravirtualised', 'dev': 'hda', 'uname': 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/recovery.img', 'mode': 'w'}
[2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (XendDomainInfo:1458) createDevice: vbd : 
{'uuid': '5c84f484-c9df-f60d-ccec-9a4bf7e47e64', 'bootable': 
0, 'driver': 'paravirtualised', 'dev': 'hdb', 'uname': 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/WindowsXP.img', 'mode': 'w'}
[2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (XendDomainInfo:1458) createDevice: vbd : 
{'uuid': 'f34d1d46-dd15-7572-6661-26570af507a7', 'bootable': 
0, 'driver': 'ioemu', 'dev': 'ioemu:hdd', 'uname': 'phy:hda', 'mode': 'r'}
[2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (XendDomainInfo:1458) createDevice: vif : 
{'bridge': 'xenbr0', 'mac': '00:16:3e:33:b1:83', 'type': 'ioemu', 'uuid': 'b5fca1da-8850-0723-bf2e-edbf7635832e'}
[2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (image:454) spawning device 
models: /usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm 
['/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm', '-d', '27', '-vcpus', '1', '-boot', 'cd', '-soundhw', 'sb16', '-localtime', '-serial', 'pty', '-acpi', '-usb', '-usbdevice', 'tablet', '-domain-name', 'recovery', '-net', 'nic,vlan=1,macaddr=00:16:3e:33:b1:83,model=rtl8139', '-net', 'tap,vlan=1,bridge=xenbr0', '-vnc', '127.0.0.1:0', '-vncunused', '-vncviewer']
[2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (image:458) device model pid: 29112


"recovery" is a Debian system, I created it under KVM and I've mentioned it 
here before.

Here is the Xen configuration:
[root at potoroo xen]# cat /etc/xen/recovery | grep -Ev '^($|#)'
import os, re
arch = os.uname()[4]
if re.search('64', arch):
    arch_libdir = 'lib64'
else:
    arch_libdir = 'lib'
kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
builder='hvm'
memory = 128
name = "recovery"
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0' ]
disk = [ 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/recovery.img,hda,w'
       , 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/WindowsXP.img,hdb,w'
       , 'phy:hda,ioemu:hdd,r'
       ]
device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
boot="cd"
sdl=0
vnc=1
vncconsole=1
vncpasswd=''
stdvga=0
serial='pty'
soundhw='sb16'
localtime=1
usb=1
usbdevice='tablet'
[root at potoroo xen]# 

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