On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:56:29PM -0400, Alan McKay wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk < > konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > And do 'xm console <guest>", and run 'vncviewer localhost:0' > > and in the GRUB entry add this to your Linux stanza: > > > > So I'm a bit confused here. Do you mean change the way I boot from the > live CD because if it is not finding my hard drive how is it going to find > the grub entries on the HD? No. The problem you said you had was that your installation on your hard-disk could not boot. I want you to change the options in the GRUB2 menu when booting the guest. You might need to hold/hit Shift to see. > > > > "console=ttyS0,115200 debug loglevel=8 initcall_debug" > > > > So I'm just not sure where to add this. I think I found how to do it in > new grub but then it struck me that it was not finding the HD anyway so > changing it there did not seem to make sense. Huh? GRUB2 doesn't even get loaded? > > And that leads me to another question about the xen / virt-manager combo - > I don't see any way with this to get into BIOS settings for the VM. And > when I start the VM either from the HD or the CD there does not seem to be > any way to interact with the BIOS. When trying to boot from the HD it just Right. There isn't any way to interact with the BIOS. > jumps up immediately adn says it is not found. > > > > > That will pipe your guest output to 'xm console'. From there it should > > be possible to figure out why the disks aren't seen. > > > > My config file already said "serial=pty" and when I do the xm command to > view the console when the VM boots, I get nothing. > > > > Oh wait, you are using 'virt install' do this right? Then to > > get that .xm file, do something like this: > > > > Yes, I did create it like that. So now where is the definitive config > stored? I have a file /etc/xen/UbuntuServerS1 which has my config, but I > can also dump the XML as you suggested. So which one is being used when I > boot? Just so I know where to change it. I don't know actually. If you are using virt-* it is probably the XML but if you are using an .xm file to start it - then change that. > > > > Here is what my config file looks like - I added a couple of the VNC > related directives after your last email, but I am not using VNC to view > the console. I'm using the console tab in virt-manager. > > name = "UbuntuServerS1" > uuid = "dcc3a34e-b9d2-4b63-b169-cfa9213330e0" > maxmem = 4096 > memory = 4096 > vcpus = 2 > builder = "hvm" > kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" > boot = "cc" > pae = 1 > acpi = 1 > apic = 1 > localtime = 0 > on_poweroff = "destroy" > on_reboot = "destroy" > on_crash = "destroy" > device_model = "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm" > sdl = 0 > vnc = 1 > vncunused = 1 > vnclisten = "0.0.0.0" > keymap = "en-us" > disk = [ > "phy:/dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.160.250:3260-iscsi-iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:f4f32db3-53b1-422c-c979-c568b1e6227b-lun-1,hda,w", > "file:/data/iso/ubuntu-12.04-beta2-desktop-amd64.iso,hdc:cdrom,r" ] > vif = [ > "mac=00:16:3e:20:95:39,bridge=xenbr1,script=vif-bridge,vifname=vif61.0", > "mac=00:16:3e:4e:92:c4,bridge=xenbr0,script=vif-bridge,vifname=vif61.1" ] > parallel = "none" > serial = "pty" > _______________________________________________ > virt-tools-list mailing list > virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
