Re: Fail to xm/xl create domUs after an upgrade

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

On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 10:54:37PM +0200, Étienne wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I'm not sure what's happening here
> 
> I had a NetBSD 6.1 dom0 running smoothly a couple of NetBSD domUs, and
> then I just upgraded to 6.1.1. But since then, I can't get any of the
> domUs to boot: "xm create" or "xl create" fails on any of the domUs
> I had before upgrading. The output from xl is:
> 
> # xl create /usr/pkg/etc/xen/marauder 
> Parsing config from /usr/pkg/etc/xen/marauder
> libxl: error: libxl_create.c:437:libxl__domain_make: domain creation fail
> libxl: error: libxl_create.c:663:initiate_domain_create: cannot make domain: 
> -3
> libxl: error: libxl.c:1377:libxl__destroy_domid: non-existant domain -1
> libxl: error: libxl.c:1341:domain_destroy_callback: unable to destroy guest 
> with domid 4294967295
> libxl: error: libxl_create.c:1171:domcreate_destruction_cb: unable to destroy 
> domain 4294967295 following failed creation

xl is really useless when things go wrong ...

> 
> And xm shows:
> 
> # xm create /usr/pkg/etc/xen/marauder 
> Using config file "/usr/pkg/etc/xen/marauder".
> Error: Creating domain failed: name=marauder
> 
> Not finding any explanation there, I went to /var/log/xen/xend.log, but
> I just don't get what the problem is:
> 
> [2013-10-09 21:49:58 367] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:2499) 
> XendDomainInfo.constructDomain
> [2013-10-09 21:49:58 367] DEBUG (balloon:187) Balloon: 3103548 KiB free; need 
> 16384; done.
> [2013-10-09 21:49:58 367] ERROR (XendDomainInfo:2561) (1, 'Operation not 
> permitted')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", 
> line 2556, in _constructDomain
>     target = self.info.target())
> Error: (1, 'Operation not permitted')

now that's strange. Does xm info work as expected ?

Is dom0 running a kernel from the release, or one you built yourself ?


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