On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 05:51:17PM -0400, Ben Russo wrote: > I have many boxes running rh-7.2 > (these are stripped down, minimal installs, for appliances on a private > network that isn't routable) I want to run VIRTUAL images of the > same setup for testing purposes. > > I read the Fedora 6 XEN getting started guide and skimmed through the > FAQ. I browsed through this mailing list to see if I could find my > problem here as well. No luck. > > I have a Dell-2950 with Quad Core XEON processors, PAE, VMX, and it is > enabled in BIOS. 8GB RAM, 2GB assigned to Dom0 > > Booted into RHEL-5 Xen kernel, installed all the latest patches as of > 6/11/2007, and rebooted. > > Then Started Virtual Machine Manager GUI > Selected "New..." from File menu and followed the wizard. > then installed FULLY VIRTUALIZED > RH-72 from original Red Hat 7.2 CD's > this went fine with the > Virtual Machine Manager GUI "New Machine" wizard. > The only non-usual thing I did for an RH72 install was > to give it the kernel boot option mem=500M > > After the install completed, the DomU guest said it was now going to > reboot and I should remove any CD's. > > Then the DomU disappeared. > > It took me forever to figure out that I couldn't use the virt-manager > GUI to restore a DomU configuration file. There really should be > a more intuitive way for this to work. I am not a dummy, and it took > me forever to figure out how to start the DomU again. The virt-manager release in Fedora 7 can now start existing inactive guests. We recently pushed an update to Fedora 6 updates-testing which can do the same. > Now that I figured out that I have to go to a command line prompt and > type "xm create -c /etc/xen/rh72-test", That is no longer neccessary. Virt-manager can do that. You can also do it with 'virsh' which is the preferred tool for command line usage virsh start rh72-test > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffff > printing eip: > c0204a00 > *pde = 00001063 > *pte = 00000000 > Oops: 0000 > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0010:[<c0204a00>] > EFLAGS: 00010202 > eax: fffffff ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000004 edx: 00000004 > esi: fffffff edi: c0229972 ebp: 0008e000 esp: c0257fb4 > ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 > Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c0257000) > Stack: c026d6e8 0000000 c024.... > ... > ... > Call Trace: [<.... > > Code: f3 a6 ... > <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! Please file BZ reports for any kernel panic issues - mailing lists are a very bad way to track kernel bugs. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
