[CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS 5.1 x64
Rudi Ahlers
Rudi at SoftDux.com
Fri Feb 29 10:44:32 UTC 2008
carlopmart wrote:
> Tom Brown wrote:
>> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> This is the first time I try and get Xen working, and want to
>>> install a few CentOS 5.1 32bit and FreeBSD 6.1 VM's on my CentOS 5.1
>>> x64 server.
>>>
>>> Trying to get the first one to install is rather trivial, and I keep
>>> on running into errors. At fist I wanted to install it fro the
>>> cdrom, so I used "virt-install --cdrom=/dev/hdc" It booted up, and I
>>> could choose my language, but then got an error saying I don't have
>>> the right driver for the cdrom install. Odd.
>>>
>>> So, I copied the whole CD to my intranet server, to try a HTTP
>>> installation, which got much further, but fails as soon as it starts
>>> copying the files to the xvda partition.
>>>
>>> Here's what I've done:
>>> virt-install -p
>>> --location=http://intranet/kickstart/centos/5.1/32/os/i386 --ram=512
>>> --file=/vm/vm03.img --name=vm03
>>>
>>> Probing for video card: Unable to probe
>>> No video hardware found, assuming headless
>>> Graphical installation not available... Starting text mode.
>>> Welcome to CentOS
>>>
>>> +------------------+ Package Installation +------------------+
>>> | |
>>> | Name : libXt-1.0.2-3.1.fc6-i386 |
>>> | Size : 359k |
>>> | Summary: X.Org X11 libXt runtime library |
>>> | |
>>> | |
>>> | Status: |
>>> | |
>>> | 53% |
>>> | |
>>> | Packages Bytes Time |
>>> | Total : 349 564M 0:02:30 |
>>> | Completed: 123 200M 0:00:53 |
>>> | Remaining: 226 364M 0:01:37 |
>>> | |
>>> | 35%
>>> Guest installation complete... restarting guest.
>>> libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error
>>> creating domain: Boot loader didn't return any data!")
>>> exception was: virDomainCreate() failed POST operation failed:
>>> (xend.err "Error creating domain: Boot loader didn't return any data!")
>>> Domain installation may not have been
>>> successful. If it was, you can restart your domain
>>> by running 'virsh start vm03'; otherwise, pleasels | <F12> next
>>> screen
>>> restart your installation.
>>> [root at gimbli ~]# virsh start vm03
>>> libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error
>>> creating domain: Boot loader didn't return any data!")
>>> error: Failed to start domain vm03
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> /var/log/messages got filled with the following messages:
>>>
>>> stem_r:xenstored_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0
>>> tclass=capability
>>> Feb 29 10:36:59 gimbli kernel: audit(1204274218.949:2139): avc:
>>> denied { sys_resource } for pid=2445 comm="xenstored"
>>> capability=24 scontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0
>>> tcontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0 tclass=capability
>>> Feb 29 10:36:59 gimbli kernel: audit(1204274218.949:2140): avc:
>>> denied { sys_resource } for pid=2445 comm="xenstored"
>>> capability=24 scontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0
>>> tcontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0 tclass=capability
>>> Feb 29 10:36:59 gimbli kernel: audit(1204274218.949:2141): avc:
>>> denied { sys_resource } for pid=2445 comm="xenstored"
>>> capability=24 scontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0
>>> tcontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0 tclass=capability
>>> Feb 29 10:36:59 gimbli kernel: audit(1204274218.949:2142): avc:
>>> denied { sys_resource } for pid=2445 comm="xenstored"
>>> capability=24 scontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0
>>> tcontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0 tclass=capability
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>
>> as far as i am aware on standard RHEL or CentOS 5 packages a 32bit
>> domU on a 64bit dom0 is not supported and known to crash
>>
>
> That's incorrent. I have three Rhel5.1 x86_64 xenhosts with different
> 32 bits domU, centos 5.1, centos 5.0 and rhel5.1 included ...
>
> I think that problem is selinux. In redhat docs explains that domU
> needs to reside on /var/lib/xen if you use selinux. You can try to
> disable selinux (/etc/sysconfig/selinux) and all works ok.
>
I have got selinux disabled.
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Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
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