On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Just starting and playing around with Xen on Centos 5.
> I created a new VM (para-virtualized) with the Virtual Machine Manager,
> installed Centos 5 minimal on it, rebooted after successful installation.
I did a presentation in some depth at a local LUG (third in a
series) just last Saturday, and the notes are at:
http://www.colug.net/notes/0708mtg/
> The VM console vanishes on shutdown and that's it. The VM id vanishes from
> the VM Manager and there's no way to get it back. It looks like the new VM
> doesn't exist. xm list shows only Domain-0, virsh list
do a:
cd /etc/xen
and rerun the command -- 'xm' does not have a reasonable
default search path.
> --all tells me that it cannot list the inactive domains. A
> restore from the VM file fails as well. The VM image file
> exists (in /home/vm), a config file for it in /etc/xen
> exists. But I don't see where the path to the image file
> might have been saved. Maybe that's the problem? (I know the
> location can create a problem with SELinux, but I'm
> currently running permissive and only testing.)
yes -- the SELinux issue also is present as noted in the
outline.
-- Russ Herrold