hmm RedHat enterprise like Xen kernels, like Fedora, Scientific Linux, 
CentOS, are all PAE enabled kernels, and it is not easy to build a PAE not 
enabled kernel to be used in a install environment... because
I just took hte initrd and vmlinuz  from the install images since
initrd has inside the install facility...
thanks though

Rick



On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:55:32AM -0600, RJ45 wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>> I could finally start a XEN3 DOM0
>>
>> I rebuilt the whole system:
>>
>> NetBSD xenbsd.domain.it 4.0_BETA2 NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 (XEN3_DOM0) #0:
>> Thu Jun  7 21:16:11 CEST 2007
>> root@xenbsd.domain.it:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/XEN3_DOM0 i386
>>
>> I started xend and xenbackendd
>>
>> root      14  0.0  2.3    0 24528 ?     DK    6:06PM 0:00.00 [xenwatch]
>> root      15  0.0  2.3    0 24528 ?     DK    6:06PM 0:00.00 [xenbus]
>> root     481  0.0  0.1  300   848 ?     I     6:10PM 0:00.00 xenstored
>> --pid-file /var/run/xenstore.pid
>> root    1048  0.0  0.0 5172     4 ?     IW    6:10PM 0:00.00
>> /usr/pkg/bin/python2.4 /usr/pkg/sbin/xend start
>> root    1310  0.0  0.0 2084   132 ?     IWa   6:10PM 0:00.00 xenconsoled
>> root    1817  0.0  0.0 5576  5388 ?     IWa   6:10PM 0:00.00
>> /usr/pkg/bin/python2.4 /usr/pkg/sbin/xend start
>> root    1885  0.0  0.0 2084   132 ?     IWsa  6:10PM 0:00.00
>> /usr/pkg/sbin/xenbackendd
>>
>> Now I Wanted to start a RedHat 5.0 domU
>>
>> so I tok hte domU kernels and tryed to boot them:
>>
>> xm create /usr/pkg/etc/xen/sl50 -c kernel=/root/SL50XEN/vmlinuz
>> ramdisk=/root/SL50XEN/initrd.img
>> extra="method=http://os-server.domain.it/distro/SL/50/i386/ skipddc
>> text"
>>
>> and here is my configuration for Xen domU
>>
>> name = "sl50"
>> memory = 512
>> #vcpus = 2
>> disk = [ 'file:/domU/SL50/sl50,0x301,w' ]
>> #vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3E:11:22:33' ]
>> # wn-04-04-27-a --> MAC address
>> #vif = [ 'mac=00:06:5B:19:9A:2B','bridge=bridge0' ]
>> #bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub"
>> on_reboot   = 'destroy'
>> on_crash    = 'destroy'
>> on_poweroff = 'destroy'
>>
>> I tried bot with and without NIC
>>
>> but it does not work and I have this error
>>
>> Using config file "/usr/pkg/etc/xen/sl50".
>> Error: (22, 'Invalid argument')
>>
>>
>> looing at xend logs:
>>
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:13 xend 1817] DEBUG (image:198) features       =
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:13 xend.XendDomainInfo 1817] ERROR (XendDomainInfo:202)
>> Domain construction failed
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
>> line 195, in create
>>     vm.initDomain()
>>   File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
>> line 1363, in initDomain
>>     raise VmError(str(exn))
>> VmError: (22, 'Invalid argument')
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:13 xend.XendDomainInfo 1817] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1449)
>> XendDomainInfo.destroy: domid=6
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:13 xend.XendDomainInfo 1817] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1457)
>> XendDomainInfo.destroyDomain(6)
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend.XendDomainInfo 1817] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:190)
>> XendDomainInfo.create(['vm', ['name', 'sl50'], ['memory', 512],
>> ['on_poweroff', 'destroy'], ['on_reboot', 'destroy'], ['on_crash',
>> 'destroy'], ['vcpus', 1], ['image', ['linux', ['kernel',
>> '/root/SL50XEN/vmlinuz'], ['ramdisk', '/root/SL50XEN/initrd.img'],
>> ['args', 'method=http://os-server.cnaf.infn.it/distro/SL/50/i386/ skipddc
>> text']]], ['device', ['vbd', ['uname', 'file:/domU/SL50/sl50'], ['dev',
>> '0x301'], ['mode', 'w']]]])
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend.XendDomainInfo 1817] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:296)
>> parseConfig: config is ['vm', ['name', 'sl50'], ['memory', 512],
>> ['on_poweroff', 'destroy'], ['on_reboot', 'destroy'], ['on_crash',
>> 'destroy'], ['vcpus', 1], ['image', ['linux', ['kernel',
>> '/root/SL50XEN/vmlinuz'], ['ramdisk', '/root/SL50XEN/initrd.img'],
>> ['args', 'method=http://os-server.cnaf.infn.it/distro/SL/50/i386/ skipddc
>> text']]], ['device', ['vbd', ['uname', 'file:/domU/SL50/sl50'], ['dev',
>> '0x301'], ['mode', 'w']]]]
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend.XendDomainInfo 1817] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:395)
>> parseConfig: result is {'shadow_memory': None, 'uuid': None, 'on_crash':
>> 'destroy', 'on_reboot': 'destroy', 'localtime': None, 'image': ['linux',
>> ['kernel', '/root/SL50XEN/vmlinuz'], ['ramdisk',
>> '/root/SL50XEN/initrd.img'], ['args',
>> 'method=http://os-server.cnaf.infn.it/distro/SL/50/i386/ skipddc text']],
>> 'on_poweroff': 'destroy', 'bootloader_args': None, 'cpus': None, 'name':
>> 'sl50', 'backend': [], 'vcpus': 1, 'cpu_weight': None, 'features': None,
>> 'vcpu_avail': None, 'memory': 512, 'device': [('vbd', ['vbd', ['uname',
>> 'file:/domU/SL50/sl50'], ['dev', '0x301'], ['mode', 'w']])], 'bootloader':
>> None, 'cpu': None, 'maxmem': None}
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend.XendDomainInfo 1817] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1253)
>> XendDomainInfo.construct: None
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend.XendDomainInfo 1817] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1285)
>> XendDomainInfo.initDomain: 7 1.0
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend 1817] DEBUG (balloon:127) Balloon: 2583496 KiB
>> free; need 524288; done.
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend 1817] INFO (image:136) buildDomain os=linux
>> dom=7 vcpus=1
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend 1817] DEBUG (image:191) dom            = 7
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend 1817] DEBUG (image:192) image          =
>> /root/SL50XEN/vmlinuz
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend 1817] DEBUG (image:193) store_evtchn   = 1
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend 1817] DEBUG (image:194) console_evtchn = 2
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend 1817] DEBUG (image:195) cmdline        =
>> method=http://os-server.cnaf.infn.it/distro/SL/50/i386/ skipddc text
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend 1817] DEBUG (image:196) ramdisk        =
>> /root/SL50XEN/initrd.img
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend 1817] DEBUG (image:197) vcpus          = 1
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend 1817] DEBUG (image:198) features       =
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend.XendDomainInfo 1817] ERROR (XendDomainInfo:202)
>> Domain construction failed
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
>> line 195, in create
>>     vm.initDomain()
>>   File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
>> line 1363, in initDomain
>>     raise VmError(str(exn))
>> VmError: (22, 'Invalid argument')
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend.XendDomainInfo 1817] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1449)
>> XendDomainInfo.destroy: domid=7
>> [2007-06-08 18:49:43 xend.XendDomainInfo 1817] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1457)
>> XendDomainInfo.destroyDomain(7)
>>
>> What's wrong ?
>
> Make sure the kernel is plain 32bit kernel, not 32bit-PAE.
> the output of xm dmesg may also have a hint.
>
> -- 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --
>