I just installed F11... When attempting an "xm create -c" I get the following failure... I do use Cobbler and KOAN and have my setup set to use Xen pv... Do I need to specify something special for the guest kernel? I know for CentOS 5.4 guests - I really don't do anything special with xm create... Using config file "/etc/xen/fedora-11-vm-i386". Started domain fedora-11-vm-i386 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000008 IP: [<c048dc74>] get_page_from_freelist+0x291/0x3a2 *pdpt = 00000000382a7007 Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: Modules linked in: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE #1) EIP: e019:[<c048dc74>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0 EIP is at get_page_from_freelist+0x291/0x3a2 EAX: f5458000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000000 ESI: c0907ea0 EDI: 00000000 EBP: c0949ea8 ESP: c0949e60 DS: e021 ES: e021 FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: e021 Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c0948000 task=c08d2314 task.ti=c0948000) Stack: c161e000 00000001 00000020 c0909fa4 c09b46bc 00000000 c09086c0 00000000 00000001 00000000 000212d0 00000000 00000200 c0907ea0 c0907ea0 000012d0 000000d0 c0909fa0 c0949f04 c048de2e c0909fa0 00000001 00000044 c0389fa8 Call Trace: [<c048de2e>] ? __alloc_pages_internal+0xa9/0x38a [<c043607e>] ? vprintk+0x2da/0x2fc [<c04ab646>] ? alloc_pages_node+0x22/0x28 [<c04ab66c>] ? alloc_slab_page+0x20/0x23 [<c04ab7d0>] ? __slab_alloc+0x11e/0x3ef [<c0577b86>] ? kvasprintf+0x26/0x45 [<c04ac631>] ? __kmalloc+0xbd/0x121 [<c0577b86>] ? kvasprintf+0x26/0x45 [<c0577b86>] ? kvasprintf+0x26/0x45 [<c0577bb6>] ? kasprintf+0x11/0x13 [<c096c6b9>] ? kmem_cache_init+0xbb/0x119 [<c09517ae>] ? start_kernel+0x23c/0x2e6 [<c0951081>] ? i386_start_kernel+0x70/0x77 [<c09540c8>] ? xen_start_kernel+0x434/0x43c Code: 00 89 f1 8b 5d d8 2b 8e ec 0a 00 00 64 a1 24 31 9b c0 03 45 c8 c1 f9 08 69 c9 a3 8b 2e ba 01 5c 88 10 8b 45 e8 ff 15 80 b4 8d c0 <8b> 42 08 89 d1 89 45 e8 8b 02 8b 5a 10 66 85 c0 79 03 8b 4a 0c EIP: [<c048dc74>] get_page_from_freelist+0x291/0x3a2 SS:ESP e021:c0949e60 CR2: 0000000000000008 ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G D 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE #1 Call Trace: [<c0738681>] ? printk+0x14/0x1b [<c07385cb>] panic+0x3e/0xe0 [<c04385af>] do_exit+0x62/0x5e5 [<c0738681>] ? printk+0x14/0x1b [<c073b246>] oops_end+0x99/0xa1 [<c04218b4>] no_context+0x141/0x14b [<c04219dd>] __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x11f/0x127 [<c0574a00>] ? put_dec+0x2e/0x104 [<c0574a00>] ? put_dec+0x2e/0x104 [<c048c4a5 On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Scot P. Floess wrote: > > So, I am going to show my ignorance here... Is there anything special I need > to do to use those kernels? I could have sworn when I tried either F 10 or F > 11 - I couldn't work it without qemu running. But I could be wrong :) > > Maybe I should retry 11... > > On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >> 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 >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> CentOS-virt mailing list >>>>>>> CentOS-virt at centos.org >>>>>>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> CentOS-virt mailing list >>>>>> CentOS-virt at centos.org >>>>>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> CentOS-virt mailing list >>>>> CentOS-virt at centos.org >>>>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> CentOS-virt mailing list >>>> CentOS-virt at centos.org >>>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >>>> >>> >>> Scot P. Floess >>> 27 Lake Royale >>> Louisburg, NC 27549 >>> >>> 252-478-8087 (Home) >>> 919-890-8117 (Work) >>> >>> Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate >>> Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim >>> >>> Architect Keros http://sourceforge.net/projects/keros >> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS-virt mailing list >>> CentOS-virt at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-virt mailing list >> CentOS-virt at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >> > > Scot P. Floess > 27 Lake Royale > Louisburg, NC 27549 > > 252-478-8087 (Home) > 919-890-8117 (Work) > > Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate > Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim > > Architect Keros http://sourceforge.net/projects/keros Scot P. Floess 27 Lake Royale Louisburg, NC 27549 252-478-8087 (Home) 919-890-8117 (Work) Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim Architect Keros http://sourceforge.net/projects/keros