Hi, after a previous thread I start & some feedback you gave to me, about creating xen VM I ask you for your help. Here is the problem : `mount`. It was unable to find the disk/device to mount it as root (/). After the linux kernel bootup (domU) I create the VM by theses steps: i'm on fedora 8 with xen 3.1.0-13 a) #fdisk /dev/sda create a new part (sda4) type linux b)format it with #mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda4 c)Copy on it all files from my distrib with : #cp -a / /mnt/sda4 Edit the /mnt/sda4/etc/fstab to meet the reqs for the VM. d)Start the vm from config file (see below). #xm create testvm.conf -c Booom! failed :'( I check every thing i can, fstab, VM config file & test several things... But i was unable to fix the problem. Someone can help me, point out whats wrong ? Thanks, --- Guillaume ---begin of xenVM config file--- kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-2950.fc8xen" ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6.21-2950.fc8xen.img" root = "root=/dev/sda1 ro" #extra = "1" memory = "128" name = "Fedora-8-Guest" disk = [ 'phy:sda4,sda1,w' ] ---EOF--- ---begin of boot--- #xm create testvm.conf -c Using config file "./testvm.conf". Started domain Fedora-8-Guest Linux version 2.6.21-2950.fc8xen (kojibuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-32)) #1 SMP Tue Oct 23 12:24:34 EDT 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: sanitize start sanitize bail 0 copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 0000000008800000 end: 0000000008800000 type: 1 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000008800000 (usable) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 136MB LOWMEM available. NX (Execute Disable) protection: active Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 34816 Normal 34816 -> 34816 HighMem 34816 -> 34816 early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 34816 ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled Detected 2001.289 MHz processor. Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 34544 Kernel command line: 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=c136c000 soft=c134c000 PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes) Xen reported: 2000.198 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Software IO TLB disabled vmalloc area: c9000000-f4ffe000, maxmem 2d7fe000 Memory: 118016k/139264k available (2071k kernel code, 12968k reserved, 1080k data, 188k init, 0k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xf5315000 - 0xf57fe000 (5028 kB) pkmap : 0xf5000000 - 0xf5200000 (2048 kB) vmalloc : 0xc9000000 - 0xf4ffe000 ( 703 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xc8800000 ( 136 MB) .init : 0xc1319000 - 0xc1348000 ( 188 kB) .data : 0xc1205e5e - 0xc1313fd4 (1080 kB) .text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc1205e5e (2071 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4070.78 BogoMIPS (lpj=8141572) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 2048K Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 13k freed Brought up 1 CPUs 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: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) TCP reno registered checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 7064k freed audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1194965135.393:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) ksign: Installing public key data Loading keyring 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 v0.102 (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 Linux version 2.6.21-2950.fc8xen (kojibuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-32)) #1 SMP Tue Oct 23 12:24:34 EDT 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: sanitize start sanitize bail 0 copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 0000000008800000 end: 0000000008800000 type: 1 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000008800000 (usable) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 136MB LOWMEM available. NX (Execute Disable) protection: active Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 34816 Normal 34816 -> 34816 HighMem 34816 -> 34816 early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 34816 ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled Detected 2001.289 MHz processor. Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 34544 Kernel command line: 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=c136c000 soft=c134c000 PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes) Xen reported: 2000.198 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Software IO TLB disabled vmalloc area: c9000000-f4ffe000, maxmem 2d7fe000 Memory: 118016k/139264k available (2071k kernel code, 12968k reserved, 1080k data, 188k init, 0k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xf5315000 - 0xf57fe000 (5028 kB) pkmap : 0xf5000000 - 0xf5200000 (2048 kB) vmalloc : 0xc9000000 - 0xf4ffe000 ( 703 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xc8800000 ( 136 MB) .init : 0xc1319000 - 0xc1348000 ( 188 kB) .data : 0xc1205e5e - 0xc1313fd4 (1080 kB) .text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc1205e5e (2071 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4070.78 BogoMIPS (lpj=8141572) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 2048K Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 13k freed Brought up 1 CPUs 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: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) TCP reno registered checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 7064k freed audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1194965135.393:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) ksign: Installing public key data Loading keyring 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 v0.102 (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 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 drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0) Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 795k Red Hat nash version 6.0.19 starting Mounting proc filesystem Mounting sysfs filesystem Creating /dev Creating initial device nodes Setting up hotplug. Creating block device nodes. Loading ehci-hcd.ko module Loading ohci-hcd.ko module Loading uhci-hcd.ko module USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 Loading mbcache.ko module Loading jbd.ko module Loading ext3.ko module Loading scsi_mod.ko module SCSI subsystem initialized Loading sd_mod.ko module Loading libata.ko module Loading ata_piix.ko module Waiting for driver initialization. Loading ata_generic.ko module Loading BusLogic.ko module Creating root device. Mounting root filesystem. mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' Setting up other filesystems. Setting up new root fs setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory Switching to new root and running init. unmounting old /dev unmounting old /proc unmounting old /sys switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Booting has failed. ---End of boot--- ---begin of fstab (domU)--- # cat /mnt/etc/fstab /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 ---end of file--- -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen