Re: Problem Creating DomainU

["John R. Shannon" <john%johnrshannon.com@localhost>]

Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 03:31:07PM -0600, John R. Shannon wrote:
> > I'm following the NetBSD/Xen HOWTO. Domain0 is running NetBSD CURRENT.
> >
> > $ xm list
> > Name              Id  Mem(MB)  CPU  State  Time(s)  Console
> > Domain-0           0       64    0  r----      7.5
> >
> > My config file is at the end of this E-mail.
> >
> > I initialize the kernel's memory disk:
> > # mdsetimage /netbsd-INSTALL_XENU \
> > /import/CURRENT/src/distrib/i386/floppies/ramdisk-big/obj/ramdisk-big.fs
> >
> > and then when I type:
> >
> > # xm create -c green
> > Using config file "/etc/xen/green".
> >
> > the computer locks up with no indication of what is occurring.
>
> When you say "lock up", what is exactly happening ? xm hangs but other shells
> are still alive ? No more userland progress, but system still responding to
> ping ? Any panic message on console ?

By lock up I mean that I can't get the system to respond to any input. 
There is no more userland progress. There is no output on the console. 
The computer does not respond to ping.

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