On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:26 -0400, Peter Sjoberg wrote:
I have just updated my 10.2 XEN system to 10.3RC1 and found a few things.
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2: XEN failures:
After disabling autostart of the xen guests I booted the XEN version of the kernel.
I tried to start one of my domU with "vm create -c sato" but it did just hang, didn't get anything at all out on the screen. Looked around a little and it seems like the migration from xen 3.0 to 3.1 isn't that trivial and requires some work (RTFD for a start) After some more testing I have found a few things: 1: documentation is sparese. Xensource still shows 3.0 doc and braks about 3.0 download (but it links to 3.1). I tried to find out some tings like form at of /etx/xen/vm/domU and where the "xm list" info is stored etc and foudn the answer ins misc forums. Once I found some info I tried to reverse the findings to see if I just missed it at first but for example "uuid" or a pointer to say that domain info is now stored in /var/lib/xend/domains/<uuid>/config.sxp is no where to be found.
2: To be able to even start a domain created in opensuse 10.2 you need to change the obsolete "bootentry" line yast created -bootentry = 'hda1:/boot/vmlinuz-xen,/boot/initrd-xen' +bootargs = '--entry=hda1:/boot/vmlinuz-xen,/boot/initrd-xen' The strange thing is that if you have "bootentry" it doesn't give you an error, it just hangs. 3: After this it does at least start up but something seems to be missing since "xm list" shows even stopped domains created under 10.3. Looking around and guessing I found that I need to do xm shutdown #wait for it to die xm new domU grep -l domU /var/lib/xend/domains/*/config.sxp #add the uuid returned above to the config echo 'uuid="0c29be6f-cb1a-a9e8-67b2-83b8cce822cc"' >>domU xm list #verify that domU now shows up in the list despite it's not running xm create domU # and now it's only one domU line. # if you don't add uuid to the config file you get two lines, # one running and one down 4: I still haven't checked out that the domains works and at least one where I now export a pile of xen bridges for a total of 5 NICs (its a fw) doesn't work. Right now I'm considering building new 10.3 domU and just move the configuration but since building domains also fails I can't do that yet.
I did also try to build a new domU using yast and for a start the interface makes it a lot harder then before since I have to type in the install source manually despite it's the same as dom0 (an nfs mount point). The install started but when it rebooted an error box came up that it was no kernel there. Tried again with a text only build and there it did the same (after complaining about ntp config failing since ntp wasn't installed)
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