Hi all

I keep on getting this error when I try and install a Xen guest on a CentOS 5.1 x64 server with Xen installed from the repositories:

[root@gimbli ~]# virt-install sdl=0 vnc=0 nographic=0 -v --location=http://intranet/kickstart/cPanel/centos/5.1/32/os/i386/ --ram=256 --file-size=10 --file=/home/vm/vps07.img --name=vps07 libvir: error : configuration file syntax error: expecting an assignment Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) no

Starting install... Retrieving CentOS... 91 kB 00:00 Retrieving boot.iso... 100% |=========================| 7.3 MB 00:00 Creating storage file... 100% |=========================| 10 GB 00:00 Creating domain... 0 B 00:00 Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect to the console to complete the installation process. [root@gimbli ~]# xm console vps07 xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory

[root@gimbli ~]# xm dmesg __ __ _____ _ ___ ____ _____ _ _ _____ _ ____ \ / /___ _ __ |___ / / | / _ \ | ___|___ / / | / |___ / ___| | ___| \ // _ \ \047_ \ |_ \ | || | | |_|___ \ |_ \ | | | | |_ \ / _ \ |___ \ / \ __/ | | | ___) || || |_| |__|__) |__) || |_| |___) | __/ |___) | /_/____|_| |_| |____(_)_(_)___/ |____/____(_)_(_)_|____(_)___|_|____/

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/netos/xen University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

Xen version 3.1.0-53.1.13.el5 (mockbuild@) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)) Tue Feb 12 12:55:35 EST 2008 Latest ChangeSet: unavailable

(XEN) Command line: /xen.gz-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 (XEN) 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) (XEN) 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) (XEN) 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) (XEN) 0000000000100000 - 000000007f5e0000 (usable) (XEN) 000000007f5e0000 - 000000007f5e3000 (ACPI NVS) (XEN) 000000007f5e3000 - 000000007f5f0000 (ACPI data) (XEN) 000000007f5f0000 - 000000007f600000 (reserved) (XEN) 00000000d0000000 - 00000000e0000000 (reserved) (XEN) 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) (XEN) System RAM: 2037MB (2086396kB) (XEN) Xen heap: 13MB (14212kB) (XEN) Domain heap initialised: DMA width 32 bits (XEN) Processor #0 6:15 APIC version 20 (XEN) Processor #1 6:15 APIC version 20 (XEN) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 (XEN) Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs (XEN) Using scheduler: SMP Credit Scheduler (credit) (XEN) Detected 2666.753 MHz processor. (XEN) HVM: VMX enabled (XEN) VMX: MSR intercept bitmap enabled (XEN) CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz stepping 0b (XEN) Mapping cpu 0 to node 255 (XEN) Booting processor 1/1 eip 90000 (XEN) Mapping cpu 1 to node 255 (XEN) CPU1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz stepping 0b (XEN) Total of 2 processors activated. (XEN) ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs (XEN) -> Using new ACK method (XEN) Platform timer is 14.318MHz HPET (XEN) Brought up 2 CPUs (XEN) mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent variable MTRR settings (XEN) *** LOADING DOMAIN 0 *** (XEN) elf_parse_binary: phdr: paddr=0xffffffff80200000 memsz=0x2c3c58 (XEN) elf_parse_binary: phdr: paddr=0xffffffff804c3c80 memsz=0x113270 (XEN) elf_parse_binary: phdr: paddr=0xffffffff805d7000 memsz=0xc08 (XEN) elf_parse_binary: phdr: paddr=0xffffffff805d8000 memsz=0x10af04 (XEN) elf_parse_binary: memory: 0xffffffff80200000 -> 0xffffffff806e2f04 (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: GUEST_OS = "linux" (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: GUEST_VERSION = "2.6" (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: XEN_VERSION = "xen-3.0" (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: VIRT_BASE = 0xffffffff80000000 (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: PADDR_OFFSET = 0xffffffff80000000 (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: ENTRY = 0xffffffff80200000 (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: HYPERCALL_PAGE = 0xffffffff80206000 (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: FEATURES = "writable_page_tables|writable_descriptor_tables|auto_translated_physmap|pae_pgdir_above_4gb|supervisor_mode_kernel" (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: LOADER = "generic" (XEN) elf_xen_addr_calc_check: addresses: (XEN) virt_base = 0xffffffff80000000 (XEN) elf_paddr_offset = 0xffffffff80000000 (XEN) virt_offset = 0x0 (XEN) virt_kstart = 0xffffffff80200000 (XEN) virt_kend = 0xffffffff806e2f04 (XEN) virt_entry = 0xffffffff80200000 (XEN) Xen kernel: 64-bit, lsb, compat32 (XEN) Dom0 kernel: 64-bit, lsb, paddr 0xffffffff80200000 -> 0xffffffff806e2f04 (XEN) PHYSICAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT: (XEN) Dom0 alloc.: 000000007a000000->000000007c000000 (470828 pages to be allocated) (XEN) VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT: (XEN) Loaded kernel: ffffffff80200000->ffffffff806e2f04 (XEN) Init. ramdisk: ffffffff806e3000->ffffffff80e3aa00 (XEN) Phys-Mach map: ffffffff80e3b000->ffffffff811e2960 (XEN) Start info: ffffffff811e3000->ffffffff811e349c (XEN) Page tables: ffffffff811e4000->ffffffff811f1000 (XEN) Boot stack: ffffffff811f1000->ffffffff811f2000 (XEN) TOTAL: ffffffff80000000->ffffffff81400000 (XEN) ENTRY ADDRESS: ffffffff80200000 (XEN) Dom0 has maximum 2 VCPUs (XEN) elf_load_binary: phdr 0 at 0xffffffff80200000 -> 0xffffffff804c3c58 (XEN) elf_load_binary: phdr 1 at 0xffffffff804c3c80 -> 0xffffffff805d6ef0 (XEN) elf_load_binary: phdr 2 at 0xffffffff805d7000 -> 0xffffffff805d7c08 (XEN) elf_load_binary: phdr 3 at 0xffffffff805d8000 -> 0xffffffff80611388 (XEN) Initrd len 0x757a00, start at 0xffffffff806e3000 (XEN) Scrubbing Free RAM: .done. (XEN) Xen trace buffers: disabled (XEN) Std. Loglevel: Errors and warnings (XEN) Guest Loglevel: Nothing (Rate-limited: Errors and warnings) (XEN) Xen is relinquishing VGA console. (XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type \047CTRL-a\047 three times to switch input to Xen).

The machine is an Intel Core 2 Duo 6750