[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

Tue Nov 24 17:24:06 UTC 2009
Scot P. Floess <sfloess at nc.rr.com>

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....

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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