Re: Xend refuses to start

["Marcin M. Jessa" <lists%yazzy.org@localhost>]

Christoph Egger wrote:
> On Monday 28 July 2008 16:32:29 Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 11:29 +0200, Marcin M. Jessa wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I am unabled to connect to the Xen instance on NetBSD 4.99.70
> > >
> > > # pkpg_info|grep xen :
> > > xentools3-3.1.4     Userland Tools for Xen
> > > xentools3-hvm-3.1.4 Tools for Virtual Machine Extensions support in Xen
> > > xenkernel3-3.1.4    Xen3 Kernel
> > >
> > > This is what /var/log/xen/xend-debug.log says afeter /etc/rc.d/xend
> > > start:
> > >
> > > Xend started at Mon Jul 28 11:23:53 2008.
> > > brctl: not found
> > > brctl: not found
> > > Exception starting xend: (61, 'Connection refused')
> > The xend/xendbackend default configuration files are ... in need of
> > review.
>
> Launch xend manually with  "xend trace_start". Then you get 
> a /var/log/xen/xend.trace file containing all python code in the order
> of execution.
>
> > Its almost entirely impossible to debug python.
>
> Sure?

The error messages could be of a more human readable form..

My problem was missing xen devices in /dev, thanks Jaime Fournier for 
pointing this out.

I still have problems running things properly.
Trying to start a Windows XP image I previously used on Linux I get 
following error msg in console (the log files are silent):

Using config file "/usr/local/etc/xen/winxp".
Error: invalid literal for int(): *.22

Any idea what that could mean?
I found nothing matching under /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen


This is my config file:

#Kernel and memory size
kernel = '/usr/local/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'
builder = 'hvm'
memory  = '512'
vcpus=1
pae=0
acpi=0
apic=0
device_model = '/usr/local/libexec/qemu-dm'
disk = [ 'tap:aio:/xen/windows/winxp.img,ioemu:xvda,w', 
'phy:/dev/cd0a,ioemu:xvdc:cdrom,r' ]

#  Hostname and Networking
name = 'winxp'
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=bridge0, mac=00:00:00:ff:fe:01' ]

#  Behavior
boot = 'c'  #d is cdrom boot, c is disk boot.
nographic='0'
vnc = '1'
vncviewer = '1'
sdl='0'
stdvga='0'
serial='pty'
ne2000='0'

#  Behavior
#
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'