Hi,

I cannot start Linux PV guests. "sudo xl create -c" reports that a domain has successfully started but "ps -ef | grep qemu" returns no output and "sudo xl list" doesn't show that the PV domain has started.

Please review the following installation steps which I have written and see if there are any mistakes.

XL Domain Configuration File for Fedora 16 x86_64 PV domU (Incomplete Configuration, Not Tested, Do Not Use)

You will need to install apache2 and create a local http mirror.

sudo apt-get install apache2

cd /media sudo mkdir fedora cd ~/Downloads sudo mount -o loop Fedora-16-x86_64-DVD.iso /media/fedora cd mkdir -p vms/f16 cd /media/fedora/images/pxeboot cp vmlinuz initrd.img ~/vms/f16/

sudo nano /etc/xen/Fedora16x86_64

# Kernel image to boot kernel = "/home/teo-en-ming/vms/f16/vmlinuz" # Ramdisk (optional) ramdisk = "/home/teo-en-ming/vms/f16/initrd.img" #bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub"

cd /etc/xen/images/ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=fedora16x86_64.img bs=1024k seek=10000 count=0

To install Fedora 16 x86_64 as a paravirtualized guest domain,

sudo xl create -c Fedora16x86_64

After installing Fedora 16 x86_64 PV domU,

sudo nano /etc/xen/Fedora16x86_64

# Kernel image to boot #kernel = "/home/teo-en-ming/vms/f16/vmlinuz" # Ramdisk (optional) #ramdisk = "/home/teo-en-ming/vms/f16/initrd.img" bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub"

# XL domain configuration file for Fedora 16 x86_64 PV domU # Please refer to "man xl.cfg" for further explanations. # See also docs/misc/xl-network-configuration.markdown and # docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt # Written by Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) # Email: teo.en.ming@gmail.com # Mobile Phone: +65-8369-2618 # Country: Singapore # Date: 18 Mar 2012 Sun name="Fedora16x86_64" builder="generic" vcpus=2 memory=1024 on_poweroff="destroy" on_reboot="restart" on_crash="destroy" disk=[ 'format=raw, vdev=hda, access=rw, target=/etc/xen/images/fedora16x86_64.img' ] vif=[ 'bridge=virbr0' ] vfb=[ 'vnc=1,vnclisten=localhost,vncdisplay=2,vncunused=1,vncpasswd=,sdl=0' ] gfx_passthru=0 # Step 1 # To install Fedora 16 x86_64 PV domU, configure the kernel, ramdisk, and extra keys below and comment out bootloader. # Kernel image to boot kernel = "/home/teo-en-ming/vms/f16/vmlinuz" # Ramdisk (optional) ramdisk = "/home/teo-en-ming/vms/f16/initrd.img" # Kernel command line options #extra = "root=/dev/xvda1" # Step 2 # To boot the already installed Fedora 16 x86_64 PV domU, comment out the keys in Step 1 and uncomment bootloader below. #bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub"

Please advise.

Thank you very much.

Yours sincerely,

Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)