[xenpreview-dev] SLES-9 DomainU on SLES-10 SP1

[Tobias Mucke]

Hi everybody,

I am trying to start an SLES-9 X86 DomainU on SLES-10 SP1 (Xen
3.0.4_13138-0.47). Because I want to integrate the domain installation
in our autoinstallation environment I had to fumble with the initrd.
Anyway I managed this task in the past and wrote a tiny documentation
for it.

Now I wanted to reinstall my domain, replaying the documentation, but
it does not work anymore. Here is the output at the console.

sysadm at minxxen011:/tmp> xm create -c
/srv/xen/domains/minxlab909/minxlab909.install
Using config file "/srv/xen/domains/minxlab909/minxlab909.install".
Started domain minxlab909

But nothing happens than. There is also nothing suspicios in Xen logfiles.

Here is the Domain configuration.

disk = [ 'phy:/dev/vg_xen/lv_minxlab909_root,hda,w' ]
memory = 512
vcpus = 1
builder = 'linux'
kernel = '/srv/xen/kernels/SUSE/SLES-9/X86/vmlinuz-xenpae'
ramdisk = '/tmp/initrd-sles9-sp3'
name = 'minxlab909'
vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:00:00:17' ]
localtime = 0
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot = 'destroy'
on_crash = 'destroy'
extra = 'xencons=tty hostip=IP netmask=NETMASK gateway=GATEWAY
nameserver=NAMESERVER
install=http://mmxoslab01.mn.man.de/autoinstall/SUSE/SLES-9/I386
autoyast=http://mmxoslab01.mn.man.de/autoinstall/AUTOYAST/SLES-9/'

Is there anybody out there starting SLES-9 domains on SLES-10 SP1 Xen?

Thanks for your advice.

Tobias