Re: xen hvm trouble

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

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 05:05:10PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 04:32:47PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 12:50:16PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > > I might add some projects encountered during this morning's work:
> > > - add HVM support to xen 4  (Maybe part of "Support latest features of 
> > > Xen")
> > 
> > hvm works with xen 4 and NetBSD dom0. I have several domUs running on Xen
> > 4.1.x (including 2 windows domUs)
> 
> Sorry: I see in the xen howto "the HVM support (for later versions
> this is included in sysutils/xentools)."
> 
> I had my first attempt at an HVM and failed. In order to try to test
> glib2/patch-ba myself, I tried to make a dragonfly domu:
> 
> builder = "hvm"
> name = "dfly"
> vcpus = 1
> memory = 512
> disk = ['phy:/dev/mapper/vg0-dfly,hda,w', 
> 'file:/store/iso/dfly-x86_64-3.4.3_REL.iso,cd0,r']
> vif = ['mac=00:1e:8c:5e:52:c8,bridge=bridge0']
> boot="d"
> 
> but:
> 
> # xl create -c dfly.cfg 
> Parsing config from dfly.cfg
> 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
> 

4294967295 == 0xffffffff == -1.

Do you have enough free ram for this domU ?
What Xen version is it ? xl is known to not work with Xen 4.1.
I think I had it working with 4.2 on a test system ...

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