Re: netboot kernel to linux install in xen-45

[david l goodrich <dlg%dsrw.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:17:44PM -0500, david l goodrich wrote:
> the config below is based on debian's provided config, and tracks
> closely with how I built linux domu's with xm.  however, with
> xen-45....
> 
> 
> monolith# grep -v ^# /usr/pkg/etc/xen/debian.cfg |grep -v ^$
> kernel = "/xen/kernel/Linux/debian/jessie/amd64/vmlinuz"
> ramdisk = "/xen/kernel/Linux/debian/jessie/amd64/initrd.gz"
> extra = "debian-installer/exit/always_halt=true -- quiet console=hvc0"
> memory = 128
> name = "errol"
> vcpus = 2
> vif = ['bridge=bridge0']
> disk = ['raw:/dev/mapper/small-vm.errol,xvda,w']
> monolith# xl create -c /usr/pkg/etc/xen/debian.cfg
> Parsing config from /usr/pkg/etc/xen/debian.cfg
> libxl: error: libxl_dom.c:36:libxl__domain_type: unable to get domain type for domid=21
> xl: unable to exec console client: No such file or directory
> libxl: error: libxl_exec.c:118:libxl_report_child_exitstatus: console child [25671] exited with error status 1
> monolith#
> 
> 
> any suggestions?


thank you to jakllsch@ off-list, for suggesting "memory = 320",
which resolved the problem for me.

--david