Dario Faggioli wrote: > Hi Jim, everyone, > > I'm having an issue using the libvirt's libxl driver while installing a > Fedora 18 (via netinstall) on both Fedora 18 or rawhide host. > > So, what happens is, basically, that I do not see the output from the > installer at all, neither in the virt-viewer instance that virt-install > does pop-up automatically, nor trying to manually connect to the VM > (either with virt-viewer or VNC). So, when I do: > > [xen@zhaman ~]$ sudo virt-install --paravirt --name f18-i386 --ram > 2048 --vcpus 2 -f /dev/vms/f18_i386 --network bridge=virbr0 --location > http://mirrors.rit.edu/fedora/linux//releases/18/Fedora/i386/os/ > Starting install... > Retrieving file .treeinfo... | 2.4 kB 00:00:00 !!! > Retrieving file vmlinuz-PAE... | 9.3 MB 00:00:33 !!! > Retrieving file initrd-PAE.img... | 52 MB 00:04:11 !!! > Creating domain... > > And then, in the virt-viewer window, I see a black screen and all it > says is "serial0 console". using `xl console f18-i386' gives me some of > the textual output of the installer (but nothing graphical, of course). > Hmm, do you see things like /local/domain/0/backend/console/-1 in xenstore instead of /local/domain/0/backend/console/<vm-id>? I think you need this patch http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=5420f26507fc5c9853eb1076401a8658d72669da which doesn't appear to be in Xen 4.2 afaict. Regards, Jim > Both Fedora 18 and rawhide have the following version of Xen: > [xen@zhaman ~]$ rpm -qa | grep xen > xen-hypervisor-4.2.2-3.{fc18|fc20}.x86_64 > xen-4.2.2-3.{fc18|fc20}.x86_64 > ... > > Regarding libvirt, on F18 I have: > [xen@zhaman ~]$ rpm -qa | grep libvirt > libvirt-client-0.10.2.4-1.fc18.x86_64 > libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.4-1.fc18.x86_64 > libvirt-daemon-0.10.2.4-1.fc18.x86_64 > libvirt-daemon-xen-0.10.2.4-1.fc18.x86_64 > ... > > While, on rawhide: > [xen@zhaman ~]$ rpm -qa | grep libvirt > libvirt-client-1.0.5-2.fc20.x86_64 > libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-1.0.5-2.fc20.x86_64 > libvirt-daemon-1.0.5-2.fc20.x86_64 > libvirt-daemon-xen-1.0.5-2.fc20.x86_64 > ... > > I'm calling it a libxl driver problem since, with both versions, if I > start xend, things work fine, and I can see both the textual and > graphical phases of the Fedora installer in the virt-viewer window from > the very beginning. > > I checked in /var/log/libvirt/libxl/libxl.log, but couldn't find > anything particular. Also, I tried to `virsh edit xxx' in the libxl and > xend cases, and the result is attached. > > The only difference between the two files that looks relevant to me is > the presence of the following section in the xend version: > > <console type='pty'> > <target type='xen' port='0'/> > </console> > > However, I tried passing "--console pty,target_type=xen" to virt-install > when using the libxl driver, which caused a similar section to appear in > the XML of that solution too, but _did_NOT_ solve the issue. > > Any idea on what can cause this? > > Thanks and Regards, > Dario > > -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list