I had this problem and another user confirmed the same behavior on his machine:
http://pastie.caboo.se/65417
Haven't tried it with *2925.10* yet. Also, is there a way to get more verbose
info about what calls are causing the "configuration file syntax error" errors?
Thanks.
virt-install
How large would you like the disk () to be (in gigabytes)? 4
ERROR: Must provide a file, not a directory for the disk
What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /xen/images/x6.img
Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) no
What is the install location?
http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora-linux-core/test/6.93/Fedora/i386/os/
Starting install...
libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed:
libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name
libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name
libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name
Retrieving Fedora... 276 kB 00:01
Retrieving vmlinuz... 100% |=========================| 2.1 MB 00:16
Retrieving initrd.img... 100% |=========================| 5.4 MB 00:28
libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed:
libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name
libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name
libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting a name
Creating domain... 0 B 00:06
Linux version 2.6.20-2925.5.fc7xen (brewbuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
(gcc version 4.1.2 20070317 (Red Hat 4.1.2-5)) #1 SMP Thu Mar 22 13:51:38 EDT 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
sanitize start
sanitize bail 0
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 0000000020800000 end:
0000000020800000 type: 1
Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020800000 (usable)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
520MB LOWMEM available.
Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 133120
Normal 133120 -> 133120
HighMem 133120 -> 133120
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 133120
ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 132080
Kernel command line:
method=http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora-linux-core/test/6.93/Fedora/i386/os/
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c135f000 soft=c133f000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Xen reported: 1694.994 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Lock dependency validator: Copyright (c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar
... MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES: 8
... MAX_LOCK_DEPTH: 30
... MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS: 2048
... CLASSHASH_SIZE: 1024
... MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES: 8192
... MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS: 16384
... CHAINHASH_SIZE: 8192
memory used by lock dependency info: 1064 kB
per task-struct memory footprint: 1200 bytes
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Software IO TLB disabled
vmalloc area: e1000000-f4ffe000, maxmem 2d7fe000
Memory: 503936k/532480k available (2030k kernel code, 19948k reserved, 1079k
data, 180k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xf5315000 - 0xf57fe000 (5028 kB)
pkmap : 0xf5000000 - 0xf5200000 (2048 kB)
vmalloc : 0xe1000000 - 0xf4ffe000 ( 319 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xe0800000 ( 520 MB)
.init : 0xc130e000 - 0xc133b000 ( 180 kB)
.data : 0xc11fb9d9 - 0xc1309714 (1079 kB)
.text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc11fb9d9 (2030 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4262.67 BogoMIPS (lpj=8525343)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
Brought up 1 CPUs
Grant table initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 16
Brought up 1 CPUs
PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found
PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: System does not support PCI
PCI: System does not support PCI
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 7256k freed
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx>
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1180379657.981:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
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
BUG: at kernel/fork.c:994 copy_process()
[<c1005d9a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
[<c1006343>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
[<c10063be>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18
[<c101d044>] copy_process+0x195/0x1245
[<c101e144>] do_fork+0x50/0x117
[<c1003351>] kernel_thread+0x8e/0x96
[<c102c701>] __call_usermodehelper+0x2d/0x46
[<c102cd4f>] run_workqueue+0x89/0x145
[<c102d711>] worker_thread+0xd5/0x102
[<c102ff27>] kthread+0xb3/0xdc
[<c10058db>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
=======================
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
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 762k
^[Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect