telnet xend

telnet xend

[Kip Macy]

Please remind me what the proper way is to interact with non-privileged
consoles. Without any telnet negotation no control characters get
transmitted and there is no notion of what type of terminal the client
is running.

				-Kip

On Fri, 14 May 2004, Kip Macy wrote:

> Thanks. Next question.
>
> On the console of the domain I'm creating I see:
>
> Checking root filesystem
> [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/sda3
> /dev/sda3 is mounted.  e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.
>
>
> [FAILED]
>
> *** An error occurred during the file system check.
> *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
>
> I'm going to disable fsck to work around this - but what am I likely
> doing wrong?
>
>
> 	-Kip
>
>
>
> >  /usr/sbin/brctl addif nbe-br eth0
> >  /sbin/ip r d 128.232.32.0/20 dev eth0
> >  /sbin/ip r a 128.232.32.0/20 dev nbe-br
> >  /sbin/ip r d default via 128.232.32.1 dev eth0
> >  /sbin/ip r a default via 128.232.32.1 dev nbe-br
> >
> > i.e., attach your IP/netmask to device nbe-br. Also, any routes that
> > reference eth0 should be replaced with one that refers to nbe-br.
> >
> >  -- Keir
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Re: telnet xend

[Ian Pratt]

> Please remind me what the proper way is to interact with non-privileged
> consoles. Without any telnet negotation no control characters get
> transmitted and there is no notion of what type of terminal the client
> is running.

"xencons <machine> <port>" is what we use. Any raw terminal
program should work.

xend should probably have support to spot a telnet client and do
the necessary negotiation to put the client into raw character
mode.

Ian


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Re: telnet xend

[Kip Macy]

That works great.

I just did a shutdown -r now in the non-privileged domain and now I'm
seeing an endless stream of the messages below. DOM0 is now
unresponsive. Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help.


KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
KERNEL: assertion (skb==NULL || before(tp->copied_seq,
TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) failed at tcp.c(1290)
KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt ||
(flags&(MSG_PEEK|MSG_TRUNC))) failed at tcp.c(1603)
KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
KERNEL: assertion (skb==NULL || before(tp->copied_seq,
TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) failed at tcp.c(1290)
KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt ||
(flags&(MSG_PEEK|MSG_TRUNC))) failed at tcp.c(1603)
KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
KERNEL: assertion (skb==NULL || before(tp->copied_seq,
TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) failed at tcp.c(1290)
KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt ||
(flags&(MSG_PEEK|MSG_TRUNC))) failed at tcp.c(1603)
KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
KERNEL: assertion (skb==NULL || before(tp->copied_seq,
TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) failed at tcp.c(1290)
KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt ||
(flags&(MSG_PEEK|MSG_TRUNC))) failed at tcp.c(1603)
KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)


On Fri, 14 May 2004, Ian Pratt wrote:

> > Please remind me what the proper way is to interact with non-privileged
> > consoles. Without any telnet negotation no control characters get
> > transmitted and there is no notion of what type of terminal the client
> > is running.
>
> "xencons <machine> <port>" is what we use. Any raw terminal
> program should work.
>
> xend should probably have support to spot a telnet client and do
> the necessary negotiation to put the client into raw character
> mode.
>
> Ian
>
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Re: telnet xend

[Kip Macy]

The machine now locks up while spitting out the error message below when
the non-privileged domain is initially *started*.

Let me know what information you need.

				-Kip

On Fri, 14 May 2004, Kip Macy wrote:

>
> That works great.
>
> I just did a shutdown -r now in the non-privileged domain and now I'm
> seeing an endless stream of the messages below. DOM0 is now
> unresponsive. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
> KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
> KERNEL: assertion (skb==NULL || before(tp->copied_seq,
> TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) failed at tcp.c(1290)
> KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt ||
> (flags&(MSG_PEEK|MSG_TRUNC))) failed at tcp.c(1603)
> KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
> KERNEL: assertion (skb==NULL || before(tp->copied_seq,
> TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) failed at tcp.c(1290)
> KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt ||
> (flags&(MSG_PEEK|MSG_TRUNC))) failed at tcp.c(1603)
> KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
> KERNEL: assertion (skb==NULL || before(tp->copied_seq,
> TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) failed at tcp.c(1290)
> KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt ||
> (flags&(MSG_PEEK|MSG_TRUNC))) failed at tcp.c(1603)
> KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
> KERNEL: assertion (skb==NULL || before(tp->copied_seq,
> TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) failed at tcp.c(1290)
> KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt ||
> (flags&(MSG_PEEK|MSG_TRUNC))) failed at tcp.c(1603)
> KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
>
>
> On Fri, 14 May 2004, Ian Pratt wrote:
>
> > > Please remind me what the proper way is to interact with non-privileged
> > > consoles. Without any telnet negotation no control characters get
> > > transmitted and there is no notion of what type of terminal the client
> > > is running.
> >
> > "xencons <machine> <port>" is what we use. Any raw terminal
> > program should work.
> >
> > xend should probably have support to spot a telnet client and do
> > the necessary negotiation to put the client into raw character
> > mode.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> >
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Re: telnet xend

[Kip Macy]

And this is the last thing that the non-priv domain prints out before
the network goes dead:

Binding to the NIS domain: [  OK  ]
Listening for an NIS domain server.
Starting automount:



On Fri, 14 May 2004, Kip Macy wrote:

> The machine now locks up while spitting out the error message below when
> the non-privileged domain is initially *started*.
>
> Let me know what information you need.
>
> 				-Kip
>
> On Fri, 14 May 2004, Kip Macy wrote:
>
> >
> > That works great.
> >
> > I just did a shutdown -r now in the non-privileged domain and now I'm
> > seeing an endless stream of the messages below. DOM0 is now
> > unresponsive. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> >
> > KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
> > KERNEL: assertion (skb==NULL || before(tp->copied_seq,
> > TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) failed at tcp.c(1290)
> > KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt ||
> > (flags&(MSG_PEEK|MSG_TRUNC))) failed at tcp.c(1603)
> > KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
> > KERNEL: assertion (skb==NULL || before(tp->copied_seq,
> > TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) failed at tcp.c(1290)
> > KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt ||
> > (flags&(MSG_PEEK|MSG_TRUNC))) failed at tcp.c(1603)
> > KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
> > KERNEL: assertion (skb==NULL || before(tp->copied_seq,
> > TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) failed at tcp.c(1290)
> > KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt ||
> > (flags&(MSG_PEEK|MSG_TRUNC))) failed at tcp.c(1603)
> > KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
> > KERNEL: assertion (skb==NULL || before(tp->copied_seq,
> > TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) failed at tcp.c(1290)
> > KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt ||
> > (flags&(MSG_PEEK|MSG_TRUNC))) failed at tcp.c(1603)
> > KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 14 May 2004, Ian Pratt wrote:
> >
> > > > Please remind me what the proper way is to interact with non-privileged
> > > > consoles. Without any telnet negotation no control characters get
> > > > transmitted and there is no notion of what type of terminal the client
> > > > is running.
> > >
> > > "xencons <machine> <port>" is what we use. Any raw terminal
> > > program should work.
> > >
> > > xend should probably have support to spot a telnet client and do
> > > the necessary negotiation to put the client into raw character
> > > mode.
> > >
> > > Ian
> > >
> > >
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Re: telnet xend

[Ian Pratt]

> The machine now locks up while spitting out the error message below when
> the non-privileged domain is initially *started*.
>
> > KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
> > KERNEL: assertion (skb==NULL || before(tp->copied_seq,
> > TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) failed at tcp.c(1290)
> > KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt ||

I've never seen anything like this. Did you build the kernel
yourself? What version of gcc? (We use 3.2.2 as per RH9)

Can you reproduce with one of our nightly builds?

The TCP stack is clearly seriously confused. It's hard to imagine
how Xen could cause this.

Ian


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Re: telnet xend

[Kip Macy]

Do your nightly builds have xenolinux binaries for nodev xen?

			-Kip


On Fri, 14 May 2004, Ian Pratt wrote:

> > The machine now locks up while spitting out the error message below when
> > the non-privileged domain is initially *started*.
> >
> > > KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
> > > KERNEL: assertion (skb==NULL || before(tp->copied_seq,
> > > TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) failed at tcp.c(1290)
> > > KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt ||
>
> I've never seen anything like this. Did you build the kernel
> yourself? What version of gcc? (We use 3.2.2 as per RH9)
>
> Can you reproduce with one of our nightly builds?
>
> The TCP stack is clearly seriously confused. It's hard to imagine
> how Xen could cause this.
>
> Ian
>


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RE: telnet xend

[Neugebauer, Rolf]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:xen-devel-
> admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ian Pratt
> Sent: 14 May 2004 23:49
> To: Kip Macy
> Cc: Ian Pratt; Keir Fraser; xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net;
> Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] telnet xend
> 
> > The machine now locks up while spitting out the error message below
when
> > the non-privileged domain is initially *started*.
> >
> > > KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1540)
> > > KERNEL: assertion (skb==NULL || before(tp->copied_seq,
> > > TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) failed at tcp.c(1290)
> > > KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt ||
> 
> I've never seen anything like this. Did you build the kernel
> yourself? What version of gcc? (We use 3.2.2 as per RH9)

I think I have these before as well, although not with the recent, i.e.,
todays checkins. This is in ngio (nodev=y) world, right?
 
> Can you reproduce with one of our nightly builds?

I saw these occasionally doing ttcp test in ngio land a day or two ago.

Could you try the latest bk version. Keir checked in a few fixes
recently.

Rolf

> The TCP stack is clearly seriously confused. It's hard to imagine
> how Xen could cause this.
> 
> Ian
> 
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RE: telnet xend

[Kip Macy]

> I think I have these before as well, although not with the recent, i.e.,
> todays checkins. This is in ngio (nodev=y) world, right?

Yes.

>
> Could you try the latest bk version. Keir checked in a few fixes
> recently.
>
I'll try that and let you know.

			-Kip






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RE: telnet xend

[Kip Macy]

Latest sources were much better behaved. Thanks.


I now have secondary domains up and running with iSCSI luns as the root
device. DOM1 doesn't appear to have any difficulty saturating the
iSCSI initiator.

I'm extremely pleased.

kmacy@xen-vm0 pwd
/tmp
kmacy@xen-vm0 time dd if=/dev/zero of=bwout bs=1048576 count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
0.000u 0.920s 0:10.73 8.5%      0+0k 0+0io 134pf+0w
kmacy@xen-vm0 time dd of=/dev/null if=bwout bs=1048576 count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
0.000u 0.000s 0:19.51 0.0%      0+0k 0+0io 137pf+0w
kmacy@xen-vm0 cat /proc/meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  64434176 62726144  1708032        0  2285568 27713536
Swap:        0        0        0
MemTotal:        62924 kB




		-Kip

On Fri, 14 May 2004, Kip Macy wrote:

>
> > I think I have these before as well, although not with the recent, i.e.,
> > todays checkins. This is in ngio (nodev=y) world, right?
>
> Yes.
>
> >
> > Could you try the latest bk version. Keir checked in a few fixes
> > recently.
> >
> I'll try that and let you know.
>
> 			-Kip
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: telnet xend

[Ian Pratt]

> I now have secondary domains up and running with iSCSI luns as the root
> device. DOM1 doesn't appear to have any difficulty saturating the
> iSCSI initiator.
> 
> I'm extremely pleased.

Great! Just to check I understand what you're doing: you're
running an iSCSI initiator in dom0 that is talking to an iSCSI
disk array over GigE, and then re-exporting this as xen block
devices to other domains. (?)

Which iSCSI initiator are you using? Do you know of a compatible
iSCSI target (disk) implementation for Linux? (for those of us
that don't have an iSCSI arry to play with.

Do you know of any iSCSI initiator implementations that support
root fs on iSCSI? (I know this isn't relevant for your setup in
dom0, but in some circumstances it would be nice to have the
domains talking direct.

Thanks,
Ian






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RE: telnet xend

[Neugebauer, Rolf]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Pratt [mailto:Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: 15 May 2004 09:59
> To: Kip Macy
> Cc: Neugebauer, Rolf; Ian Pratt; Keir Fraser; xen-
> devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] telnet xend
> 
> 
> > I now have secondary domains up and running with iSCSI luns as the
root
> > device. DOM1 doesn't appear to have any difficulty saturating the
> > iSCSI initiator.
> >
> > I'm extremely pleased.
> 
> Great! Just to check I understand what you're doing: you're
> running an iSCSI initiator in dom0 that is talking to an iSCSI
> disk array over GigE, and then re-exporting this as xen block
> devices to other domains. (?)
> 
> Which iSCSI initiator are you using? Do you know of a compatible
> iSCSI target (disk) implementation for Linux? (for those of us
> that don't have an iSCSI arry to play with.

AFAIK the intel iSCSI code on sf.net has a sample target implementation
but the last time I looked only contained target code for a ram disk and
a fake user mode disk (file on a normal file system).

A quick look through the UNH implementation
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/unh-iscsi/) suggests that their target
code can be used to export real disks.

> Do you know of any iSCSI initiator implementations that support
> root fs on iSCSI? (I know this isn't relevant for your setup in
> dom0, but in some circumstances it would be nice to have the
> domains talking direct.

I found this mini howto:
http://eludicate.com/~bolen/iscsi/

Suggests that root fs with the CISCO iSCSI software initiator might
work.

Rolf

> Thanks,
> Ian
> 
> 
> 




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Re: telnet xend

[Kip Macy]

> Great! Just to check I understand what you're doing: you're
> running an iSCSI initiator in dom0 that is talking to an iSCSI
> disk array over GigE, and then re-exporting this as xen block
> devices to other domains. (?)

I'm using Adaptec's iSCSI hardware initiator. The driver is the latest
version I downloaded from their website. A NetApp filer is the device
exporting LUNs over iSCSI.

> Which iSCSI initiator are you using? Do you know of a compatible
> iSCSI target (disk) implementation for Linux? (for those of us
> that don't have an iSCSI arry to play with.

I can provide a user-mode version if a working Linux one isn't found.
The UNH code is not the cleanest. The few people I know who've tried it
have had problems.

> Do you know of any iSCSI initiator implementations that support
> root fs on iSCSI? (I know this isn't relevant for your setup in
> dom0, but in some circumstances it would be nice to have the
> domains talking direct.

The HW initiator can supposedly boot off of LUNs now. Britt Bolen -
mentioned in another e-mail figuring out the contortions required to get
iSCSI root with the Cisco initiator.




				-Kip









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RE: telnet xend

[Kip Macy]

Britt did some of the blocks work here so he did that for his own use. I
only know of a couple people using it.

				-Kip

>
> I found this mini howto:
> http://eludicate.com/~bolen/iscsi/
>
> Suggests that root fs with the CISCO iSCSI software initiator might
> work.
>
> Rolf
>
> > Thanks,
> > Ian
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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