Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-07-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 08:33:22AM -0500, Scot P. Floess wrote: > All, > > I've had a heck of a time getting Fedora 16 to run as a guest VM under > CentOS 5.7 host as a paravirtualized Xen guest. I believe the issue has > something to do with Fedora 16 using grub2... > > When I attempt to star

Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-18 Thread Scot P. Floess
I really want to thank everyone who responded This worked for me as well and I've got it working from a kickstart installed using KOAN/Cobbler... > 2. After install has finished and before you reboot, > switch to text console on ALT-F2 of your install and copy the > /mnt/sysimage/boot/grub2

Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-11 Thread Norman Gaywood
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:59:56PM +0400, Eugene Chupriyanov wrote: > I've managed to setup F16 PV-guest domU under Xen Cloud Platform. It's > more than just Xen, but solution will be the same. > So what you need to do: > 1) Don;t use GPT (install with nogpt kernel parameter) > 2) Create bootable

Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-10 Thread Eugene Chupriyanov
10.01.2012 4:33, Norman Gaywood пишет: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:20:05PM -0500, S.Tindall wrote: >> On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 18:56 -0500, R P Herrold wrote: >>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746602 (pygrub cannot start F16 PV guests

Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-10 Thread Scot P. Floess
Ditto on my end - I tried both with the same results you mention... On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:20:05PM -0500, S.Tindall wrote: >> On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 18:56 -0500, R P Herrold wrote: >>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote: https://bugzill

Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote: > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746602 >> >> (pygrub cannot start F16 PV guests (GPT partition) under Xen 4.1.1) > > why would one use GPT for a domU? seems like gross overkill ... following on

Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-09 Thread Norman Gaywood
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:20:05PM -0500, S.Tindall wrote: > On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 18:56 -0500, R P Herrold wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote: > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746602 > > > (pygrub cannot start F16 PV guests (GPT partition) under Xen 4.1.1) > > wh

Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-09 Thread S.Tindall
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 18:56 -0500, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote: > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746602 > > > > (pygrub cannot start F16 PV guests (GPT partition) under Xen 4.1.1) > > why would one use GPT for a domU? seems like gross overkill

[CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-09 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746602 > > (pygrub cannot start F16 PV guests (GPT partition) under Xen 4.1.1) why would one use GPT for a domU? seems like gross overkill -- Russ herrold ___ Cen

Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-09 Thread Norman Gaywood
Sorry for the top post but I think it's appropriate here. The message below was posted 20th of December last year with no response. I've now hit the same problem. I have CentOS 5.7 and and trying to install an F16 domU PV guest. It seems that pygrub is failing to read the grub2 setup. It also see

[CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2011-12-19 Thread Scot P. Floess
All, I've had a heck of a time getting Fedora 16 to run as a guest VM under CentOS 5.7 host as a paravirtualized Xen guest. I believe the issue has something to do with Fedora 16 using grub2... When I attempt to start the VM (via xm create), I get this error: Using config file "/etc/xen/fedor