Hello Jason Thank you very much for your answer. Yes your third possibility for the problem was right. I assumed the server provider had installed as hypervisor and dom0 the x86_64 version, but it was the 32bit version. I did not check before the OS version, as I guessed it would be obvious that the x84_64 OS is installed. Thank you very much for your time and with best regards, André Jason Douglas schrieb:

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On 4/22/2009 at 03:44 PM, in message <49EF8FB9.7010201@himmel-blau.com>, Andre Mueller wrote:

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Hello

I am new to xen so my question may be vain.

On the host I have set-up OpenSuse 11.1 x86_64 and thereafter I have

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successfully installed xen server (with all latest updates).

In the yast xen "Create Virtual Machines" tool I have tried several times to create a xen vm from openSUSE-11.1-DVD-x86_64.iso (iso loaded to the local system from mirror linked on opensuse.org) as repository. Almost at the beginning of the create process I get always the message "Error : The installation source is unusable." - "Details : the 'kernel-xen' and 'install-initrd' packages were not found"

Trying the creation of an alternative vm (with equal settings) but using as repository source the openSUSE-11.1-DVD-i586.iso (also downloaded

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from a opensuse.org mirror) the vm is created successfully.

So I am wondering why on the openSUSE-11.1-DVD-x86_64.iso the packages 'kernel-xen' and 'install-initrd' are missing and/or do I have missed

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the an important information, that x86_64 can not be used as guest system? Thanks for any hints, with best regards,

André

André,

I'm not exactly sure why you are seeing this problem. I have successfully installed a paravirtualized VM from the openSUSE-11.1-DVD-x86_64.iso, so it should be possible.

Here are some possible reasons that your installation is failing. Some of them are fairly obvious, but they are all good things to double check when you run into this sort of trouble. 1. The ISO you downloaded is corrupt. Verifying the md5sum should be sufficient to eliminate this as the cause of the problem. 2. (highly unlikely) There is a version of the openSUSE 11.1 x86_64 iso floating around that doesn't include the installation kernel and ramdisk for xen. Check for the following files on your ISO: /boot/x86_64/vmlinuz-xen and /boot/x86_64/initrd-xen. 3. Your hypervisor and dom0 are 32-bit. A 64-bit hypervisor is required to run 64-bit VMs. You can run `xm info | grep xen_caps` to see the guest architectures that are supported on your hypervisor. Mine shows the following: ------- # xm info | grep xen_caps xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64 -------

Finally, if none of the above ideas are the root of the problem, you can get some additional debug information by duplicating the failure while running the "Create Virtual Machines" utility from the command line, passing in the debug flag:

# vm-install --debug > vm-install.out

Feel free to attach vm-install.out to a subsequent message if you'd like help parsing the log, or simply enter a bug. Good luck!

Jason

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