Re: What am I doing wrong?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:48:40PM -0500, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to bring up my first domU on a system..
> 
> The host is a SUN X2200-M2, which amusingly enough won't boot a
> GENERIC kernel, but runs just fine under the xen hypervisor. The
> system is running:
> 
>       NetBSD egsner.cirr.com 4.99.67 NetBSD 4.99.67 (XEN3_DOM0) #12: Fri Jun 
> 27 13:54:02 CDT 2008  
> eric@duke:/home/eric/work/eric/NetBSD-current/obj/amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/XEN3_DOM0
>  amd64
> 
> The userland is a few revs older:
> 
>       /sbin/init: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for 
> NetBSD 4.99.55, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
> 
> xen tools are:
>       xenkernel3-3.1.4
>       xentools3-3.1.4
> 
> When I try to start my domU (which is a clone of an older
> machine, and going to run a i386 kernel) I get the following
> message:
> 
>       egsner-> sudo xm create -c /usr/pkg/etc/xen/egsner-i386 
>       Using config file "/usr/pkg/etc/xen/egsner-i386".
>       Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/proc/xen/balloon'

check free memory in 'xm info', and make sure there's enough free memory
for your domU (the memory allocated to your domU + 32M or more for the 
hypervisor).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           
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