Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Nah, RHEL 5.1+ supports 32-bit domU (PAE and non PAE) on 64-bit dom0.
Actually RHEL Xen is 3.1 with the brain damaged 3.0 userland utilities.
-Ross
----- Original Message -----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx <centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri Feb 29 04:46:42 2008
Subject: Re: error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on
CentOS5.1 x64
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Hi all
>
> This is the first time I try and get Xen working, and want to install
> a few CentOS 5.1 32bit and FreeBSD 6.1 VM's on my CentOS 5.1 x64 server.
>
> Trying to get the first one to install is rather trivial, and I keep
> on running into errors. At fist I wanted to install it fro the cdrom,
> so I used "virt-install --cdrom=/dev/hdc" It booted up, and I could
> choose my language, but then got an error saying I don't have the
> right driver for the cdrom install. Odd.
>
> So, I copied the whole CD to my intranet server, to try a HTTP
> installation, which got much further, but fails as soon as it starts
> copying the files to the xvda partition.
>
> Here's what I've done:
> virt-install -p
> --location=http://intranet/kickstart/centos/5.1/32/os/i386 --ram=512
> --file=/vm/vm03.img --name=vm03
>
> Probing for video card: Unable to probe
> No video hardware found, assuming headless
> Graphical installation not available... Starting text mode.
> Welcome to CentOS
>
> +------------------+ Package Installation +------------------+
> | |
> | Name : libXt-1.0.2-3.1.fc6-i386 |
> | Size : 359k |
> | Summary: X.Org X11 libXt runtime library |
> | |
> | |
> | Status: |
> | |
> | 53% |
> | |
> | Packages Bytes Time |
> | Total : 349 564M 0:02:30 |
> | Completed: 123 200M 0:00:53 |
> | Remaining: 226 364M 0:01:37 |
> | |
> | 35%
> Guest installation complete... restarting guest.
> libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error
> creating domain: Boot loader didn't return any data!")
> exception was: virDomainCreate() failed POST operation failed:
> (xend.err "Error creating domain: Boot loader didn't return any data!")
> Domain installation may not have been
> successful. If it was, you can restart your domain
> by running 'virsh start vm03'; otherwise, pleasels | <F12> next
> screen
> restart your installation.
> [root@gimbli ~]# virsh start vm03
> libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error
> creating domain: Boot loader didn't return any data!")
> error: Failed to start domain vm03
>
>
>
> /var/log/messages got filled with the following messages:
>
> stem_r:xenstored_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0
> tclass=capability
> Feb 29 10:36:59 gimbli kernel: audit(1204274218.949:2139): avc:
> denied { sys_resource } for pid=2445 comm="xenstored" capability=24
> scontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0 tclass=capability
> Feb 29 10:36:59 gimbli kernel: audit(1204274218.949:2140): avc:
> denied { sys_resource } for pid=2445 comm="xenstored" capability=24
> scontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0 tclass=capability
> Feb 29 10:36:59 gimbli kernel: audit(1204274218.949:2141): avc:
> denied { sys_resource } for pid=2445 comm="xenstored" capability=24
> scontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0 tclass=capability
> Feb 29 10:36:59 gimbli kernel: audit(1204274218.949:2142): avc:
> denied { sys_resource } for pid=2445 comm="xenstored" capability=24
> scontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0 tclass=capability
>
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
as far as i am aware on standard RHEL or CentOS 5 packages a 32bit domU
on a 64bit dom0 is not supported and known to crash
_______________________________________________
Ok, so what do I do if I want to have a 64bit Host XEN & 32guest's? I'd
prefer to use CentOS for this purpose, if possible
--
Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
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