Re: I can not get a SLES11 SP3 domU's virtual disk to initialize

[Harry Waddell <waddell%caravaninfotech.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 09:13:23 +0100
Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau%citrix.com@localhost> wrote:

> On 01/12/13 03:19, Harry Waddell wrote:
> > 
> > I have created SLES11 release, SP1 and SP2 domU's without issue, but I 
> > can't seem to
> > get an SP3 domU to work with my amd64 dom0 (netbsd-6 branch as of nov 30) 
> > and 
> > xen 4.2 (from today's pkgsrc HEAD)
> > 
> > but the same virtual disk image and nearly identical config works 
> > fine with a SLES 11 SP3 DOM0. ( xen 4.2.2 )
> > 
> > The disk is defined as 
> > 
> > netbsd: disk=['phy:/dev/mapper/vg00-x43,xvda,w']
> > linux: disk=[ 'phy:/dev/sdb,xvda,w'] 
> > 
> > and the netbsd dom0 logical volume is _active_ with an exact byte copy of 
> > the /dev/sdb from linux. 
> > 
> > On NetBSD I get the dreaded: 
> > 
> >> [    1.281542] xen-vbd: registered block device major 202
> >> [    1.281569] blkfront: xvda: flush diskcache: enabled
> >> [    6.380068] XENBUS: Waiting for devices to initialise: 295s...290s...
> 
> Could you post the output of:
> 
> # xenstore-ls -fp
> 
> Executed on the Dom0 while the DomU is trying to initialize the vbd device?
> 
> 

sure, no problem.

/vm/ae7f67c5-6eb4-58a4-6479-cf9b64469027/name = "x43"   (n0,r29)
/vm/ae7f67c5-6eb4-58a4-6479-cf9b64469027/image = ""   (n0,r29)
/vm/ae7f67c5-6eb4-58a4-6479-cf9b64469027/image/ostype = "linux"   (n0,r29)
/vm/ae7f67c5-6eb4-58a4-6479-cf9b64469027/image/kernel = 
"/var/run/xen/bootloader.29.d/boot_kernel.zjNAJg"   (n0,r29)
/vm/ae7f67c5-6eb4-58a4-6479-cf9b64469027/image/ramdisk = 
"/var/run/xen/bootloader.29.d/boot_ramdisk.EnXHY6"   (n0,r29)
/vm/ae7f67c5-6eb4-58a4-6479-cf9b64469027/image/cmdline = "root=/dev/xvda2 
xencons=tty resume=/dev/xvda1 splash=silent showopts x\..."  (n0,r29)
/vm/ae7f67c5-6eb4-58a4-6479-cf9b64469027/start_time = "1386026042.37"   (n0,r29)
/libxl = ""   (n0)
/libxl/1 = ""   (n0)
/libxl/1/dm-version = "qemu_xen"   (n0)
/libxl/2 = ""   (n0)
/libxl/2/dm-version = "qemu_xen"   (n0)
/libxl/5 = ""   (n0)
/libxl/5/dm-version = "qemu_xen"   (n0)
/libxl/6 = ""   (n0)
/libxl/6/dm-version = "qemu_xen"   (n0)
/libxl/29 = ""   (n0)
/libxl/29/dm-version = "qemu_xen"   (n0)


Thanks!

Harry Waddell