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From: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: Help booting Xen under RHEL6 beta2
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:24:29 -0700 (PDT)
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Slightly more progress.  I discovered xenstored is not running...
so I did:

# modprobe xen-evtchn
# xenstored
# xenconsoled
# /etc/init.d/xend start

but xend fails to start with the same messages (ending
in "Connection refused").

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Magenheimer
> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 3:42 PM
> To: M A Young
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com; Don Dutile; Konrad Wilk
> Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Help booting Xen under RHEL6 beta2
>=20
> Hi Michael --
>=20
> Thanks for the help!
>=20
> > Also I suggest you check whether the hypervisor and xen software are
> > the same version. If they aren't then xend may not be able to the
> > hypervisor.
>=20
> They are definitely the same version as I cloned only xen-4.0-testing
> and built/installed both on the test machine itself.
>=20
> > Are you limiting the memory for dom0? If so I suggest you allow it
> > more, or don't limit it at all and see if it boots any more
> > successfully.
>=20
> Yes, I think you are right.  I have always booted dom0 with 256M
> on this box, but I guess more recent gnome tools are much more
> bloated so that accounts for the swapping and slowness.
>=20
> > It is
> > also probably worth booting direct to run level 3 (add 3 to the boot
> > line) to so you can eliminate whether or not graphics is an issue.
>=20
> Yes, I did that.  This skips the graphics looping but xend
> still fails to start (and I can no longer VNC to the box...
> fortunately it is a laptop at least).
>=20
> Thanks,
> Dan
>=20
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