Rudi Ahlers wrote: > 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. > Are you sure?? Then, why on your /var/log/messages selinux errors appears?? -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com