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

[Étienne <etienne.pub%magickarpet.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 10:23:00PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> > # 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 ...

Glad it's not just my feeling. ;-)

> > [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 ?

Seems to, yes.

# xm info
host                   : blackjack.magickarpet.org
release                : 6.1.1
version                : NetBSD 6.1.1 (XEN3_DOM0)
machine                : amd64
nr_cpus                : 2
nr_nodes               : 1
cores_per_socket       : 2
threads_per_core       : 1
cpu_mhz                : 2010
hw_caps                : 
178bf3ff:e3d3fbff:00000000:00000010:00000001:00000000:00000003:00000000
virt_caps              :
total_memory           : 3327
free_memory            : 3030
free_cpus              : 0
xen_major              : 4
xen_minor              : 2
xen_extra              : .2
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p
xen_scheduler          : credit
xen_pagesize           : 4096
platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
xen_changeset          : unavailable
xen_commandline        : dom0_mem=256M
cc_compiler            : gcc (NetBSD nb2 20110806) 4.5.3
cc_compile_by          : pbulk
cc_compile_domain      :
cc_compile_date        : Thu Aug 22 09:57:01 UTC 2013
xend_config_format     : 4

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

This is a release one.

-- 
Étienne