Re: xen hvm trouble

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 06:14:33PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 05:05:10PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > 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 ...

8G of RAM, 4G for DOM0, no other DOMUs => should have room for 512M.
xen 4.2.3

Cheers,

Patrick