[CentOS-virt] Centos 6.5 Xen Stock cannot run dom-u PCI: Fatal: - ipmi_si

Mon Jun 16 17:51:54 UTC 2014
Periko Support <pheriko.support at gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Periko Support
<pheriko.support at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> <konrad.wilk at oracle.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:21:45AM -0700, Periko Support wrote:
>>> ---------------------------------------
>>> So if I understand you correct - in 5.9 you did not see this, but
>>> in 6.5 you do?
>>> --------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Yes, just with centos 6.5 dom-u.
>>>
>>> But none of both vm's run.
>>
>> Please do not top post.
>> .. snip..
>> .. snip..
>>> >> Loading xenblk.ko module
>>> >> XENBUS: Waiting for devices to initialise:
>>> >> 295s...290s...285s...280s...275s...270s...265s...260s...255s...250s...245s...240s...235s...230s...225s...220s...215s...210s...205s...200s...195s...190s...185s...180s...175s...170s...165s...160s...155s...150s...145s...140s...135s...130s...125s...120s...115s...110s...105s...100s...95s...90s...85s...80s...75s...70s...65s...60s...55s...50s...45s...40s...35s...30s...25s...20s...15s...10s...5s...0s...
>>> >> XENBUS: Timeout connecting to device: device/vbd/51712 (local state 3,
>>> >> remote state 1)
>>> >> Loading dm-mod.ko module
>>> >> device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
>>> >> device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.6-ioctl (2011-02-18) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
>>> >> Loading dm-log.ko module
>>> >> Loading dm-mirror.ko module
>>> >> Loading dm-zero.ko module
>>> >> Loading dm-snapshot.ko module
>>> >> Loading dm-mem-cache.ko module
>>> >> Loading dm-region_hash.ko module
>>> >> Loading dm-message.ko module
>>> >> Loading dm-raid45.ko module
>>> >> device-mapper: dm-raid45: initialized v0.2594l
>>> >> Scanning and configuring dmraid supported devices
>>> >> Scanning logical volumes
>>> >>   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
>>> >>   No volume groups found
>>> >> Activating logical volumes
>>> >>   Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
>>> >> Creating root device.
>>> >> Mounting root filesystem.
>>> >> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
>>> >> Setting up other filesystems.
>>> >> Setting up new root fs
>>> >> setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
>>> >> no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
>>> >> setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
>>> >> setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
>>> >> Switching to new root and running init.
>>> >> unmounting old /dev
>>> >> unmounting old /proc
>>> >> unmounting old /sys
>>> >> switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
>>> >> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>>
>>
>>
>> Ah, that is because you do not have xen-blkfront  loaded in your initrd.
>> Somehow it thinks it is called 'xenblk'. If you recreate your initrd
>> (either dracut or mkinitrd) make sure you specify that you want to
>> have the 'xen-blkfront' driver as part of it. The usual parameter
>> is '--add' or such.
>>
>> How did you generate your initrd?
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>
> No, I'm using the instructions from xen4centos project. Nothing manually.
>
> U mention 2 things:
>
> For centos6 is normal the error, I have to connect to my console using
> other methods and see if centos6 dom-u is running, I will let u know.
> 2nd u mention that we need a module xen-blkfront for centos5 dom-u,
> hope the developers read this and fix this asap.
>
> Thanks.

If u need info from me, let me know, because this happen in both
servers with different year of manufacturing.
and different centos version 5.9/6.0.

Thanks for your time!!!