[CentOS-virt] Fedora 12 2.6.31.5-127.fc12 domU on CentOS 5.4 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen fails to boot

Wed Nov 25 08:42:28 UTC 2009
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:24:06PM -0500, Scot P. Floess wrote:
> 
> I have a silly question...  I did some goggle'ing around and it appeared 
> to me that Fedora 12 should work as a Xen guest (domU).  Is this true?  I 
> know 10 and 11 I'd have to use KVM....
>

Fedora 10, Fedora 11, and Fedora 12 all work as Xen PV domU, with the
included (pvops) kernels. Earlier Fedora versions work too.

Fedora 12 also works as Xen dom0, if you install the external unofficial
xendom0 kernel rpm.

-- Pasi

> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 05:51:51PM -0500, Charles J Gruener wrote:
> >>I've only got the one virtual disk. /boot is on xvda1 with / and swap
> >>in LVs. The PV is xvda2.
> >>
> >
> >Double check the F12 /boot type. It needs to be ext3 for now.
> >RHEL5 / CentOS5 doesn't have ext4 pygrub support yet.
> >
> >Xen packages on F12 host/dom0 do support ext4 pygrub though.
> >
> >-- Pasi
> >
> >>Charles
> >>
> >>On Nov 23, 2009, at 4:43 PM, "Andri Möll" <andri at dot.ee> wrote:
> >>
> >>>If /boot is on another virtual drive, make sure it's the first one in
> >>>the VM's 'disk' listing (/etc/xen/foo).  I remember reading that Xen
> >>>gives only the first disk to pygrub as an arg.
> >>>/usr/bin/pygrub is a Python script.  Probably printing the 'file'
> >>>var to
> >>>stderr before the line fsimage.open(file, get_fs_offset(file)) shows
> >>>what it's trying to open.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Andri
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 15:59 -0500, Charles J Gruener wrote:
> >>>>I specifically call out to create an ext3 filesystem in the
> >>>>kickstart file for /boot.  I did neglect to mention that in my
> >>>>original post.
> >>>>
> >>>>Charles
> >>>>
> >>>>On Nov 23, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Andri Möll wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>This looks like your host doesn't support the filesystem your domU's
> >>>>>using.  I think Fedora's on ext4 by default.  One solution is to use
> >>>>>ext2/ext3 for the domU's boot media or partition.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Andri
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