On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:46:37PM +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to start a netbsd (3-release) into netbsd/xen (3.0) too.
> I read and did accordingly to
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/xen/howto.html.
> 
> At the point of creating my first domain, I get :
> 	Error: Error creating domain: (0, 'Error')
> 
> Didn't found any interesting info on google...
> Any idea what I do wrong ?
> 
> Here's a few things about my conf.
> xen# uname -a
> NetBSD xen.tumfatig.net 3.0_STABLE NetBSD 3.0_STABLE
> (PE2850-XEN0-$Revision: 1.0.0 $) #0: Tue Jan  3 18:32:56 CET 2006
> root@xen.tumfatig.net:/home/cvs/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/PE2850 i386
> 
> xen# /etc/rc.d/xend start
> Starting xend.
> /usr/pkg/lib/python2.3/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDir.py:3:
> DeprecationWarning: twisted.protocols.http has moved to
> twisted.web.http. See http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/web.
>   from twisted.protocols import http
> log> [2006-01-03 19:40:47 xend] INFO (SrvDaemon:610) Xend Daemon started
> log> [2006-01-03 19:40:47 xend] INFO (XendRoot:113) EVENT> xend.start 0
> 
> xen# xm list
> Name              Id  Mem(MB)  CPU  State  Time(s)  Console
> Domain-0           0       64    0  r----    348.1        
> 
> xen# xm create -c /home/xen/netbsd-3                                                     
> Using config file "/home/xen/netbsd-3".
> Error: Error creating domain: (0, 'Error')
> log> [2006-01-03 19:42:23 xend] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:720) init_domain>
> Created domain=5 name=nbsd3 memory=128
> log> [2006-01-03 19:42:23 xend] INFO (console:94) Created console id=19
> domain=5 port=9605
> log> [2006-01-03 19:42:23 xend] ERROR (SrvBase:162) op=create: Error creating
> domain: (0, 'Error')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.3/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvBase.py", line
> 107, in _perform
>     val = op_method(op, req)
>   File
> "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.3/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDomainDir.py",
> line 71, in op_create
>     raise XendError("Error creating domain: " + str(ex))
> XendError: Error creating domain: (0, 'Error')
> log> [2006-01-03 19:42:23 xend] INFO (XendRoot:113) EVENT>
> xend.console.create [19, 5, 9605]
> 
> xen# xm list
> Name              Id  Mem(MB)  CPU  State  Time(s)  Console
> Domain-0           0       64    0  r----    348.5        
> Domain-5           5      128    1  --p--      0.0        

Did the kernel print something on the console ?

> 
> xen# cat /home/xen/netbsd-3
> name = "nbsd3"
> kernel = "/home/xen/netbsd-3"
> memory = 128
> disk = [ 'file:/home/xen/netbsd-3.dsk,wd0d,w' ]

I'm not sure file: will work out of the box on NetBSD.
Try attaching this file to vnd0 (vnconfig vnd0 /home/xen/netbsd-3.dsk)
and change file:/home/xen/netbsd-3.dsk to /dev/vnd0d

I think some patches were posted here to make xend attach the file to a
vnd automatically but AFAIK they were not integrated to the package.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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