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. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stugg