Re: Xen4.7 unable to get domain type for domid

[Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>]

Hi Tianyang,

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:24:15PM -0400, soapcn wrote:
> I keep getting this error about not being able to get domain type
> when I try to create a domU.
> Xen-4.7, Ubuntu 12.04

I also had this problem recently with regard to some Ubuntu 12.04
domUs, but on Xen 4.4.1, Debian jessie. These domUs worked fine on
earlier versions of Xen. I searched around a lot and found a few
other people with the same problem, but no answers.

In the end I discovered that these domUs were using the
linux-image-virtual kernel package instead of the more usual
linux-image-generic. I installed linux-image-generic and
uninstalled linux-image-virtual, and then the affected domUs would
boot.

I note also that I have some domUs with Ubuntu 12.04.01 using
linux-image-virtual and these are okay. So I assumed whatever
problem there was with that kernel was rectified by the time of the
12.04.01 release.

I hope that helps you.

Cheers,
Andy