Hi Paul, hi Dave! I did a: mkinitrd -f --with=ext3 --preload=ext3 --with=xennet --builtin=aic7xxx --builtin=serverworks --preload=xenblk --omit-raid-modules --omit-lvm-modules --fstab=/home/user/disk/etc/fstab /boot/xen-initrd.img 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6xen created a new xen-initrd.img and tried again with this suse.xen.conf: kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6xen" initrd= "/boot/xen-initrd.img" memory = 512 name = "opensuse102" vif = [''] #nics = 1 #dhcp = "dhcp" disk = ['file:/home/rehcla/opensuse102xen.img,xvda,w'] root = "/dev/xvda ro" and got again a Kernel Panic: Using config file "./suse.xen.cfg". Started domain opensuse102 Linux version 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6xen (brewbuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 SMP Sat Feb 10 16:09:50 EST 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020800000 (usable) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 520MB LOWMEM available. NX (Execute Disable) protection: active 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: root=/dev/xvda ro Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c07e1000 soft=c07c1000 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Xen reported: 3391.492 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 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: 512768k/532480k available (2168k kernel code, 11204k reserved, 1106k 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 : 0xc0790000 - 0xc07bd000 ( 180 kB) .data : 0xc061e2e4 - 0xc0732bf4 (1106 kB) .text : 0xc0400000 - 0xc061e2e4 (2168 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 8487.78 BogoMIPS (lpj=16975578) 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: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 2048K Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k 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 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: 9, 2621440 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1310720 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) TCP reno registered IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1172231052.798:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks ksign: Installing public key data Loading keyring - Added public key BE1C9570C411C444 - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key) 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 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 Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0 Linux version 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6xen (brewbuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 SMP Sat Feb 10 16:09:50 EST 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020800000 (usable) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 520MB LOWMEM available. NX (Execute Disable) protection: active 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: root=/dev/xvda ro Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c07e1000 soft=c07c1000 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Xen reported: 3391.492 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 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: 512768k/532480k available (2168k kernel code, 11204k reserved, 1106k 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 : 0xc0790000 - 0xc07bd000 ( 180 kB) .data : 0xc061e2e4 - 0xc0732bf4 (1106 kB) .text : 0xc0400000 - 0xc061e2e4 (2168 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 8487.78 BogoMIPS (lpj=16975578) 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: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 2048K Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k 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 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: 9, 2621440 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1310720 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) TCP reno registered IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1172231052.798:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks ksign: Installing public key data Loading keyring - Added public key BE1C9570C411C444 - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key) 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 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 Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0 Event-channel device installed. Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide 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 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. VFS: Cannot open root device "xvda" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) I also downloaded an debian 3.1 image from http://jailtime.org/ what gave me with the old initrd.img the same error as the opensuse102xen.img. I tried it with the new xen-initrd.img and the result gives me hope:) Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c07e1000 soft=c07c1000 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Xen reported: 3391.494 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 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: 512768k/532480k available (2168k kernel code, 11204k reserved, 1106k 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 : 0xc0790000 - 0xc07bd000 ( 180 kB) .data : 0xc061e2e4 - 0xc0732bf4 (1106 kB) .text : 0xc0400000 - 0xc061e2e4 (2168 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 8494.77 BogoMIPS (lpj=16989547) 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: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 2048K Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k 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 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: 9, 2621440 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1310720 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) TCP reno registered IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1172213430.748:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks ksign: Installing public key data Loading keyring - Added public key BE1C9570C411C444 - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key) 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 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 Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0 Linux version 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6xen (brewbuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 SMP Sat Feb 10 16:09:50 EST 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020800000 (usable) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 520MB LOWMEM available. NX (Execute Disable) protection: active 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: root=/dev/xvda ro Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c07e1000 soft=c07c1000 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Xen reported: 3391.494 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 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: 512768k/532480k available (2168k kernel code, 11204k reserved, 1106k 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 : 0xc0790000 - 0xc07bd000 ( 180 kB) .data : 0xc061e2e4 - 0xc0732bf4 (1106 kB) .text : 0xc0400000 - 0xc061e2e4 (2168 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 8494.77 BogoMIPS (lpj=16989547) 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: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 2048K Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k 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 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: 9, 2621440 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1310720 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) TCP reno registered IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1172213430.748:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks ksign: Installing public key data Loading keyring - Added public key BE1C9570C411C444 - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key) 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 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 Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0 Event-channel device installed. Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide 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 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. VFS: Cannot open root device "xvda" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) [root@workstation rehcla]# xm create -c /home/rehcla/debian/debian.3-1.xen3.cfg Using config file "/home/rehcla/debian/debian.3-1.xen3.cfg". Started domain debian.3-1 Linux version 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6xen (brewbuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 SMP Sat Feb 10 16:09:50 EST 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020800000 (usable) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 520MB LOWMEM available. NX (Execute Disable) protection: active 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: ip=:1.2.3.4::::eth0:dhcp root=/dev/sda1 ro Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c07e1000 soft=c07c1000 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Xen reported: 3391.494 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 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: 507520k/532480k available (2168k kernel code, 16420k reserved, 1106k 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 : 0xc0790000 - 0xc07bd000 ( 180 kB) .data : 0xc061e2e4 - 0xc0732bf4 (1106 kB) .text : 0xc0400000 - 0xc061e2e4 (2168 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 8495.53 BogoMIPS (lpj=16991062) 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: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 2048K Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k freed Brought up 1 CPUs checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 5216k freed 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 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: 9, 2621440 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1310720 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) TCP reno registered IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1172216475.645:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks ksign: Installing public key data Loading keyring - Added public key BE1C9570C411C444 - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key) 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 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 Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0 Linux version 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6xen (brewbuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 SMP Sat Feb 10 16:09:50 EST 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020800000 (usable) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 520MB LOWMEM available. NX (Execute Disable) protection: active 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: ip=:1.2.3.4::::eth0:dhcp root=/dev/sda1 ro Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c07e1000 soft=c07c1000 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Xen reported: 3391.494 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 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: 507520k/532480k available (2168k kernel code, 16420k reserved, 1106k 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 : 0xc0790000 - 0xc07bd000 ( 180 kB) .data : 0xc061e2e4 - 0xc0732bf4 (1106 kB) .text : 0xc0400000 - 0xc061e2e4 (2168 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 8495.53 BogoMIPS (lpj=16991062) 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: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 2048K Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k freed Brought up 1 CPUs checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 5216k freed 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 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: 9, 2621440 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1310720 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) TCP reno registered IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1172216475.645:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks ksign: Installing public key data Loading keyring - Added public key BE1C9570C411C444 - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key) 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 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 Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0 Event-channel device installed. Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide 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/2049 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/2050 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0 Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 387k Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.0.2 starting Mounting proc filesystem Mounting sysfs filesystem Creating /dev Creating initial device nodes Setting up hotplug. Creating block device nodes. Loading jbd.ko module Loading ext3.ko module Loading xenblk.ko module Registering block device major 8 Loading uhci-hcd.ko module USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 Loading ohci-hcd.ko module Loading ehci-hcd.ko module Loading scsi_mod.ko module SCSI subsystem initialized Loading sd_mod.ko module register_blkdev: cannot get major 8 for sd Loading libata.ko module Loading ata_piix.ko module Loading dm-mod.ko module device-mapper: ioctl: 4.10.0-ioctl (2006-09-14) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx Loading dm-mirror.ko module Loading dm-zero.ko module Loading dm-snapshot.ko module Loading xennet.ko module netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver. netfront: device eth0 has flipping receive path. Making device-mapper control node Scanning logical volumes Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Activating logical volumes Volume group "VolGroup00" not found Creating root device. Mounting root filesystem. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Setting up other filesystems. Setting up new root fs no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults Switching to new root and running init. unmounting old /dev unmounting old /proc unmounting old /sys INIT: version 2.86 booting Activating swap. Adding 65528k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:65528k Checking root file system... fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) /dev/sda1: clean, 8493/131072 files, 48009/262144 blocks EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal System time was Fri Feb 23 07:41:31 UTC 2007. Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... System Clock set. System local time is now Fri Feb 23 07:41:40 UTC 2007. Cleaning up ifupdown...done. Creating device-mapper devices...done. Checking all file systems... fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) Setting kernel variables ... ... done. Mounting local filesystems... Cleaning /tmp /var/run /var/lock. Setting up networking...done. Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. Configuring network interfaces...Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html Listening on LPF/eth0/00:16:3e:7f:4d:fa Sending on LPF/eth0/00:16:3e:7f:4d:fa Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1 bound to 192.168.0.104 -- renewal in 21600 seconds. done. Loading the saved-state of the serial devices... Not setting System Clock INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 Starting system log daemon: syslogd. Starting kernel log daemon: klogd. Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshdPRNG is not seeded Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd. Starting periodic command scheduler: cron. At this step the progess stops and does not move on! No error message, nothing! xm list gives me: Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 1508 2 r----- 405.2 debian.3-1 3 511 1 r----- 1189.0 Login from another terminal with: xm console 3 was also not possible! Here is the /var/log/xen/xend.log: 2007-02-23 09:05:15 xend 3120] DEBUG (image:205) cmdline = ip=:1.2.3.4::::eth0:dhcp root=/dev/sda1 ro [2007-02-23 09:05:15 xend 3120] DEBUG (image:206) ramdisk = /boot/xen-initrd.img [2007-02-23 09:05:15 xend 3120] DEBUG (image:207) vcpus = 1 [2007-02-23 09:05:15 xend 3120] DEBUG (image:208) features = [2007-02-23 09:05:15 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:110) DevController: writing {'backend-id': '0', 'virtual-device': '2049', 'device-type': 'disk', 'state': '1', 'backend': '/ local/domain/0/backend/vbd/3/2049'} to /local/domain/3/device/vbd/2049. [2007-02-23 09:05:15 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:112) DevController: writing {'domain': 'debian.3-1', 'frontend': '/local/domain/3/device/vbd/2049', 'dev': 'sda1', 'state': '1', 'params': '/home/rehcla/debian/debian.3-1.img', 'mode': 'w', 'online': '1', 'frontend-id': '3', 'type': 'file'} to /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/3/2049. [2007-02-23 09:05:15 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:110) DevController: writing {'backend-id': '0', 'virtual-device': '2050', 'device-type': 'disk', 'state': '1', 'backend': '/ local/domain/0/backend/vbd/3/2050'} to /local/domain/3/device/vbd/2050. [2007-02-23 09:05:15 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:112) DevController: writing {'domain': 'debian.3-1', 'frontend': '/local/domain/3/device/vbd/2050', 'dev': 'sda2', 'state': '1', 'params': '/home/rehcla/debian/debian.swap', 'mode': 'w', 'online': '1', 'frontend-id': '3', 'type': 'file'} to /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/3/2050. [2007-02-23 09:05:15 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:110) DevController: writing {'backend-id': '0', 'mac': '00:16:3e:78:3f:1e', 'handle': '0', 'state': '1', 'backend': '/local/ domain/0/backend/vif/3/0'} to /local/domain/3/device/vif/0. [2007-02-23 09:05:15 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:112) DevController: writing {'domain': 'debian.3-1', 'handle': '0', 'script': '/etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge', 'state': '1', ' frontend': '/local/domain/3/device/vif/0', 'mac': '00:16:3e:78:3f:1e', 'online': '1', 'frontend-id': '3'} to /local/domain/0/backend/vif/3/0. [2007-02-23 09:05:15 xend.XendDomainInfo 3120] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:715) Storing VM details: {'shadow_memory': '0', 'uuid': '3d361011-5da9-5c8a-40a9-5f2b3daedd72', 'on_reboot': 'restart', 'start_time': '1172217915.99', 'on_poweroff': 'destroy', 'name': 'debian.3-1', 'xend/restart_count': '0', 'vcpus': '1', 'vcpu_avail': '1', 'memory': '512', 'on_crash ': 'restart', 'image': "(linux (kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6xen) (ramdisk /boot/xen-initrd.img) (ip :1.2.3.4::::eth0:dhcp) (root '/dev/sda1 ro') (vncunused 1) (display :0.0) (xauthority /root/.xauthKyCkI4))", 'maxmem': '512'} [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend.XendDomainInfo 3120] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:750) Storing domain details: {'console/ring-ref': '180218', 'console/port': '2', 'name': 'debian.3-1', 'cons ole/limit': '1048576', 'vm': '/vm/3d361011-5da9-5c8a-40a9-5f2b3daedd72', 'domid': '3', 'cpu/0/availability': 'online', 'memory/target': '524288', 'store/ring-ref': '180219', 'st ore/port': '1'} [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices vif. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:149) Waiting for 0. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend.XendDomainInfo 3120] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:940) XendDomainInfo.handleShutdownWatch [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:471) hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vif/3/0/hotplug-status. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:471) hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vif/3/0/hotplug-status. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:485) hotplugStatusCallback 1. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices usb. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices vbd. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:149) Waiting for 2049. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:471) hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/3/2049/hotplug-status. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:471) hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/3/2049/hotplug-status. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:485) hotplugStatusCallback 1. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:149) Waiting for 2050. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:471) hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/3/2050/hotplug-status. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:485) hotplugStatusCallback 1. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices irq. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices pci. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices ioports. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices tap. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices vtpm. [2007-02-23 09:05:16 xend 3120] INFO (XendDomain:370) Domain debian.3-1 (3) unpaused. Any Idea? Thanks for your answers, Claus Reheis On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 04:47 +0100, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, master@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > Almost certainly (believe me, based on hard-won experience) your problem > > is with the initrd.img defined in your VM config file: > > > > ramdisk= "/boot/initrd-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6xen.img" > > > > The root cause is probably the img file missing the xenblk.ko driver. Just > > rebuild the initrd using the "--with" switch to include it. > > That's not enough, since you need to preload it. What I do to create > initrd's for the guests (xenU's) on the dom0 is: > > mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6xenU.img --preload=xenblk --with=xennet 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6xen > > I've said it before and I'll say it again. Life would be much simpler if > all the "xen" kernel tree images include xenblk and xennet in the initrd. > The "space" won has been completely not worth the time people lost over > this issue. > > Paul
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