here is the xen config. (written by virt manager) Virt-manager will start the install, it gets an ip adress and tries to start anaconda. it recognizes the graphics card but once it attempts to switch terminals its just a black screen with a white outlined x pointer (that moves, responds to the mouse ) so x starts, i can't switch terminals however.

name = "f" uuid = "c1a64536-3969-1fe2-7e88-d4afb4a3d234" maxmem = 1027 memory = 512 vcpus = 2 builder = "hvm" kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" boot = "c" pae = 1 acpi = 1 apic = 1 localtime = 0 on_poweroff = "destroy" on_reboot = "restart" on_crash = "restart" device_model = "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm" sdl = 0 vnc = 1 vncunused = 1 keymap = "en-us" disk = [ "file:/state/partition1/images/images.ide,hda,w", ",hdc:cdrom,r" ] vif = [ "mac=00:16:3e:2c:ec:2d,bridge=virbr0" ] serial = "pty"

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Nehemiah Dacres dacresni@slu.edu wrote:

I am trying to install centos 5.4 on a centos 5.2 xen host. Technically this is rocks cluster and thats axillary software but the avalanch installer may be the hiccup

this is what shows up in the xen log

any suggestions

Watching /local/domain/13/logdirty/next-active xs_read(): vncpasswd get error. /vm/84384fb8-e6a6-3a84-8027-e79b841fdc7b/vncpasswd. char device redirected to /dev/pts/4 qemu_map_cache_init nr_buckets = 10000 shared page at pfn 1ffff buffered io page at pfn 1fffd xs_read(/vm/84384fb8-e6a6-3a84-8027-e79b841fdc7b/rtc/timeoffset): read error I/O request not ready: 0, ptr: 0, port: 0, data: 0, count: 0, size: 0 I/O request not ready: 0, ptr: 0, port: 0, data: 0, count: 0, size: 0 Triggered log-dirty buffer switch

-- Nehemiah I. Dacres System Administrator Advanced Technology Group Saint Louis University