Subject: Re: Re: can't start domU on Xen3
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Joel CARNAT <joel@carnat.net>
List: port-xen
Date: 06/08/2006 21:24:35
On Jeu, jui 08 2006 - 21:14, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 07:54:35PM +0200, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can't start a NetBSD domU on Xen3.
> > As I've never done xen/linux before I may miss something trivial but I
> > don't get what (I'm only used to netbsd/xenU on netbsd/xen0 :) The doc I
> > followed are:
> > http://julien.danjou.info/xen.html
> > http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_xen3_debian
> >
> > Here's what I get:
> > ########################################################################
> > # sudo xm create -c /home/xen/netbsd.conf
> > Using config file "/home/xen/netbsd.conf".
> > Error: (22, 'Invalid argument')
> > [...]
> >
> > # file /home/xen/netbsd-INSTALL_XENU /home/xen/netbsd.img
> > /home/xen/netbsd-INSTALL_XENU: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
>
> please make sure you're using a Xen-3 kernel. Use:
> objdump -s -j __xen_guest netbsd-INSTALL_XENU
>
> You should have XEN_VER=3.0 in there; if you see XEN_VER=2.0 it's the
> wrong kernel.
> If that's not the issue then it may be that your tools are too old.
> Grab new Xen kernel and tools from
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/downloads/
>
no it was just me trying to boot a v2 kernel, sorry :-(
I switched to netbsd-INSTALL_XEN3_U and it booted OK.
Jo