[kernel-xen] Installing Debian using Xen 4.2.0
Steven Haigh
netwiz at crc.id.au
Mon Oct 1 02:13:33 EST 2012
I downloaded your ubuntu-12.04-x86_64.tar.gz then extracted it to a new
LV. I modified the grub boot though to have root=/dev/xvda instead of
/dev/xvda1 as I did an entire LV, not partitioned.
Booted fine.
Started domain debtest.vm (id=39)
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup
subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.2.0-29-virtual (buildd at allspice) (gcc
version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27
17:23:50 UTC 2012 (Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-virtual 3.2.24)
[ 0.000000] Command line: root=/dev/xvda console=hvc0 ro
[ 0.000000] KERNEL supported cpus:
[ 0.000000] Intel GenuineIntel
[ 0.000000] AMD AuthenticAMD
[ 0.000000] Centaur CentaurHauls
[ 0.000000] ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled
[ 0.000000] Released 0 pages of unused memory
[ 0.000000] Set 0 page(s) to 1-1 mapping
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] Xen: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] Xen: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] Xen: 0000000000100000 - 0000000040800000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection missing in CPU!
[ 0.000000] DMI not present or invalid.
[ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.000000] last_pfn = 0x40800 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-0000000040800000
[ 0.000000] RAMDISK: 02057000 - 02ecc000
[ 0.000000] No NUMA configuration found
[ 0.000000] Faking a node at 0000000000000000-0000000040800000
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000000040800000
[ 0.000000] NODE_DATA [000000003fffb000 - 000000003fffffff]
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0x00000010 -> 0x00001000
[ 0.000000] DMA32 0x00001000 -> 0x00100000
[ 0.000000] Normal empty
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000010 -> 0x000000a0
[ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x00040800
[ 0.000000] SFI: Simple Firmware Interface v0.81
http://simplefirmware.org
[ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
[ 0.000000] No local APIC present
[ 0.000000] APIC: disable apic facility
[ 0.000000] APIC: switched to apic NOOP
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 -
0000000000100000
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 40800000 (gap:
40800000:bf800000)
[ 0.000000] Booting paravirtualized kernel on Xen
[ 0.000000] Xen version: 4.2.0 (preserve-AD)
[ 0.000000] setup_percpu: NR_CPUS:64 nr_cpumask_bits:64 nr_cpu_ids:2
nr_node_ids:1
[ 0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 28 pages/cpu @ffff88003fc00000 s82816
r8192 d23680 u1048576
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on.
Total pages: 259460
[ 0.000000] Policy zone: DMA32
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/xvda console=hvc0 ro
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Checking aperture...
[ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.000000] Memory: 994644k/1056768k available (6527k kernel code,
448k absent, 61676k reserved, 6663k data, 920k init)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=15, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0,
CPUs=2, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] RCU dyntick-idle grace-period acceleration is enabled.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:4352 nr_irqs:288 16
[ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
[ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
[ 0.000000] console [hvc0] enabled
[ 0.000000] allocated 9437184 bytes of page_cgroup
[ 0.000000] please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't
want memory cgroups
[ 0.000000] installing Xen timer for CPU 0
[ 0.000000] Detected 2327.542 MHz processor.
[ 0.004000] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using
timer frequency.. 4655.08 BogoMIPS (lpj=9310168)
[ 0.004000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.004000] Security Framework initialized
[ 0.004000] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
[ 0.004000] Yama: becoming mindful.
[ 0.004000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8,
1048576 bytes)
[ 0.004000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288
bytes)
[ 0.004000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
[ 0.004000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 0.004000] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[ 0.004000] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[ 0.004000] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[ 0.004000] Initializing cgroup subsys blkio
[ 0.004000] Initializing cgroup subsys perf_event
[ 0.004000] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
[ 0.004000] CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
[ 0.004000] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 0.041627] ftrace: allocating 26992 entries in 106 pages
[ 0.044108] cpu 0 spinlock event irq 17
[ 0.044152] Performance Events: unsupported p6 CPU model 15 no PMU
driver, software events only.
[ 0.044398] NMI watchdog disabled (cpu0): hardware events not enabled
[ 0.044538] installing Xen timer for CPU 1
[ 0.044559] cpu 1 spinlock event irq 23
[ 0.044630] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
[ 0.080825] NMI watchdog disabled (cpu1): hardware events not enabled
[ 0.080902] Brought up 2 CPUs
[ 0.081014] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.081014] EVM: security.selinux
[ 0.081014] EVM: security.SMACK64
[ 0.081014] EVM: security.capability
[ 0.081014] Grant table initialized
[ 0.081014] print_constraints: dummy:
[ 0.102806] RTC time: 165:165:165, date: 165/165/65
[ 0.102882] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.103130] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
[ 0.108595] PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
[ 0.110425] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[ 0.110563] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
[ 0.110826] xen/balloon: Initialising balloon driver.
[ 0.111886] xen-balloon: Initialising balloon driver.
[ 0.112047] vgaarb: loaded
[ 0.112047] i2c-core: driver [aat2870] using legacy suspend method
[ 0.112047] i2c-core: driver [aat2870] using legacy resume method
[ 0.112047] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 0.112467] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.112467] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.112541] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.112748] PCI: System does not support PCI
[ 0.112748] PCI: System does not support PCI
[ 0.112748] NetLabel: Initializing
[ 0.112748] NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
[ 0.112748] NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
[ 0.112748] NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
[ 0.112748] Switching to clocksource xen
[ 0.122962] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled
[ 0.123011] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
[ 0.125754] Freeing initrd memory: 14804k freed
[ 0.125889] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.126133] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6,
262144 bytes)
[ 0.127258] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9,
2097152 bytes)
[ 0.129191] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[ 0.129990] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[ 0.129997] TCP reno registered
[ 0.130018] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.130054] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.184888] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.184991] platform rtc_cmos: registered platform RTC device (no PNP
device found)
[ 0.185378] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 0.185397] type=2000 audit(1349021499.325:1): initialized
[ 0.211196] HugeTLB registered 2 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[ 0.213565] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
[ 0.213639] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.214379] fuse init (API version 7.17)
[ 0.214557] msgmni has been set to 1971
[ 0.215411] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded
(major 253)
[ 0.215496] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.215508] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[ 0.215560] io scheduler cfq registered
[ 0.215656] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 0.215685] pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 0.216295] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 32 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 0.348321] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[ 0.350028] brd: module loaded
[ 0.350893] loop: module loaded
[ 0.353505] blkfront device/vbd/51712 num-ring-pages 1 nr_ents 32.
[ 0.354333] Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[ 0.354362] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
[ 0.354369] tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk at qualcomm.com>
[ 0.354440] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 0.354499] Initialising Xen virtual ethernet driver.
[ 0.359151] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 0.359184] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[ 0.359202] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
[ 0.359266] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[ 0.359295] i8042: PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
[ 0.360150] i8042: No controller found
[ 0.360263] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 0.377945] blkfront: xvda: barrier or flush: disabled
[ 0.382662] xvda: unknown partition table
[ 0.400266] rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
[ 0.400348] rtc_cmos: probe of rtc_cmos failed with error -38
[ 0.400462] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[ 0.400563] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.22.0-ioctl (2011-10-19)
initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
[ 0.400578] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17
[ 0.400876] TCP cubic registered
[ 0.401010] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 0.401799] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 0.401810] Registering the dns_resolver key type
[ 0.401979] registered taskstats version 1
[ 0.413254] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/console/0
[ 0.413274] Magic number: 1:252:3141
[ 0.413325] /build/buildd/linux-3.2.0/drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable
to open rtc device (rtc0)
[ 0.413363] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 0.413370] EDD information not available.
[ 0.413692] Freeing unused kernel memory: 920k freed
[ 0.414089] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 12288k
[ 0.419497] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1648k freed
[ 0.420745] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1204k freed
Loading, please wait...
[ 0.470454] udevd[87]: starting version 175
Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done.
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top
... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... done.
[ 1.820837] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 1.820876] EXT3-fs (xvda): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done.
done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... done.
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
/dev/xvda: clean, 25037/655360 files, 216474/2621440 blocks
* Starting Mount network filesystems
[ OK ]
* Starting configure network device
[ OK ]
* Stopping Failsafe Boot Delay
[ OK ]
* Stopping enable remaining boot-time encrypted block devices
[ OK ]
* Starting System V initialisation compatibility
[ OK ]
* Stopping Mount network filesystems
[ OK ]
* Stopping System V initialisation compatibility
[ OK ]
* Starting System V runlevel compatibility
[ OK ]
* Starting regular background program processing daemon
[ OK ]
* Starting ACPI daemon
[ OK ]
* Starting anac(h)ronistic cron
[ OK ]
* Starting save kernel messages
[ OK ]
* Starting deferred execution scheduler
[ OK ]
* Stopping save kernel messages
[ OK ]
* Stopping System V runlevel compatibility
[ OK ]
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS localhost.localdomain hvc0
localhost login: mountall: Disconnected from Plymouth
Still can't find any faults.
--
Steven Haigh
Email: netwiz at crc.id.au
Web: http://www.crc.id.au
Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897
Fax: (03) 8338 0299
On 30/09/2012 11:55 PM, Joseph Fialkowski wrote:
> On 29 Sep 2012, at 22:24, Steven Haigh wrote:
>
>> If you strip it down to what I had as my config file, does it work?
>>
>> --
>> Steven Haigh
>>
>> Email: netwiz at crc.id.au
>> Web: http://www.crc.id.au
>> Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897
>> Fax: (03) 8338 0299
>>
>> On 30/09/2012 4:00 AM, Joe Fialkowski wrote:
>>> Here is the cfg I am using with the templates from stack let. This
>>> config works with 4.1.3 but not 4.2. Maybe its pygrub?
>>>
>>> ## This configuration file was automatically generated
>>> ## by SolusVM on Sat Sep 29 09:57:58 2012
>>>
>>> ## Cfg type: XEN-PV-LOCAL-STORAGE
>>>
>>> #kernel = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic'
>>> #ramdisk = '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic'
>>> bootloader = '/usr/bin/pygrub'
>>> extra = ''
>>> memory = 512
>>> hostname = 'ubuntu-x86_64-vm'
>>> cpu_weight = 256
>>> name = 'vm1025'
>>> vif = ['ip=199.231.190.23, vifname=vifvm1025.0,
>>> mac=00:16:3e:94:3d:48, rate=128KB/s, bridge=br0, model=e1000']
>>> vnc = 0
>>> vcpus = 1
>>> vncviewer = 0
>>> serial = 'pty'
>>> disk = ['phy:/dev/vg_xm3/vm1025_img,xvda1,w',
>>> 'phy:/dev/vg_xm3/vm1025_swap,xvda2,w']
>>> #root = '/dev/xvda1 ro'
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joe Fialkowski
>>> ZoomCloud.net
>>>
>>> On Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, so I'm still getting used to how Debian works... however, I've
>>>> installed Debian successfully by using the following DomU config:
>>>>
>>>> name = "debtest.vm"
>>>> memory = 1024
>>>> vcpus = 2
>>>> cpus = "1-7"
>>>> on_poweroff = 'destroy'
>>>> on_reboot = 'restart'
>>>> on_crash = 'restart'
>>>>
>>>> kernel = "/root/debian/vmlinuz"
>>>> ramdisk = "/root/debian/initrd.gz"
>>>> extra = "debian-installer/exit/always_halt=true -- console=hvc0"
>>>>
>>>> localtime = 0
>>>> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/vg_hosting/debtest.vm,xvda,w' ]
>>>>
>>>> vif = [ 'mac=20:34:01:36:00:99,bridge=br0' ]
>>>>
>>>> I obtained the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files from:
>>>> http://cdn.debian.net/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/xen/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> While this will probably have to be modified for whoever else wants to
>>>> use this, the install seems to be working correctly so far. I think my
>>>> previous errors were simply me not having a clue about the Debian
>>>> installer.
>>>>
>>>> I ran through the installer by creating the DomU:
>>>> xm create debtest.vm -c
>>>>
>>>> Then followed the prompts. I installed as a whole disk install and just
>>>> let the installer take care of the rest for me... It took ~5 minutes to
>>>> download 1132 packages and then about the same to install them all.
>>>>
>>>> After this was done, I edited the xen config file to as follows:
>>>>
>>>> name = "debtest.vm"
>>>> memory = 1024
>>>> vcpus = 2
>>>> cpus = "1-7"
>>>> on_poweroff = 'destroy'
>>>> on_reboot = 'restart'
>>>> on_crash = 'restart'
>>>>
>>>> bootloader = "pygrub"
>>>>
>>>> localtime = 0
>>>> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/vg_hosting/debtest.vm,xvda,w' ]
>>>>
>>>> vif = [ 'mac=20:34:01:36:00:99,bridge=br0' ]
>>>>
>>>> I then fired up the DomU using:
>>>> xm create debtest.vm
>>>>
>>>> Up it booted. Seems everything boots and works as it should. All
>>>> packages seem to be at their latest:
>>>>
>>>> root at debian:~# apt-get upgrade
>>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>>> Building dependency tree
>>>> Reading state information... Done
>>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>>>> root at debian:~# cat /etc/debian_version
>>>> 6.0.5
>>>> root at debian:~#
>>>>
>>>> So, this leaves me to wonder what issues people are having?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Steven Haigh
>>>>
>>>> Email: netwiz at crc.id.au <mailto:netwiz at crc.id.au>
>>>> Web: http://www.crc.id.au
>>>> Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897
>>>> Fax: (03) 8338 0299
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>
> Steven,
>
> If you want to try these images I have published them here:
>
> http://mirror.zoomcloud.net/SolusVM-Templates/XEN-PV/
>
> Joe
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