[one-users] FW: Problem in deploying a VM

[Javier Fontan]

Hello,

Can you send me the VM description file you are sending to ONE. I  
think that the device specification is wrong but I have to check it.

Bye

On Apr 22, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Harishbabu Nagaraj wrote:

> Hi Javier/All,
>        Since most of the people tried open nebula on OpenSuse 11.1,I  
> installed OpenSuse 11.1 and xen 3.3.1. I am trying to deploy the VM  
> on the same host machine.
> My deployment file is as follows,
> name = 'one-4'
> #O CPU_CREDITS = 128
> memory  = '512'
> kernel = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-xen'
> #kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> ramdisk = '/boot/initrd-2.6.27.7-9-xen'
> root = '/dev/sda5'
> disk = [
>     'tap:aio:/opt/nebula/ONE/var//4/images/disk.1,sda5,w',
>     'tap:aio:/opt/nebula/ONE/var//4/images/disk.0,sda1,w',
> ]
> vif = [
>     'mac=50:20:20:20:20:20,bridge=br0',
> ]
> vfb = ['type=vnc,vnclisten=127.0.0.1,vncdisplay=5']
>
> My Host machine (OpenSuse 11.1) partition details is as follows,
>
> A4MD09512:/etc/xen/vm # df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda5             109G   43G   60G  42% /
> udev                  894M  136K  894M   1% /dev
> /dev/sda1             190M   44M  137M  25% /boot
>
> I have created RHEL 5.2 image file manually using Xen virt-manager.  
> Find below the file type I have created manually,
>
> oneadmin at A4MD09512:/opt/nebula/ONE/bin> file ../../images/ 
> Rhel_server_singlepart.img
>
> ../../images/Rhel_server_singlepart.img: x86 boot sector; partition  
> 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 1, startsector 63, 14715477 sectors;
> partition 2: ID=0x82, starthead 0, startsector 14715540, 2040255  
> sectors
>
> I am giving the above image created as the source image for open  
> nebula.
> If I try to boot, VM is getting booted but it giving an error  
> "invalid root filesystem -- exiting to /bin/sh" and booting is not  
> complete.
> I know its not able find the root file system, but is there any  
> issue with my configuration as such.
>
> Let me know where I am doing wrong.  Thanks in Advance.
>
> Thanks,
> Harish
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Javier Fontan [mailto:jfontan at fdi.ucm.es]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 5:56 PM
> To: Harishbabu Nagaraj
> Cc: Ruben S. Montero; users at opennebula.org; Sarath Kumar Bheemaraju
> Subject: Re: [one-users] FW: Problem in deploying a VM
>
>
> Hello,
>
> On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Harishbabu Nagaraj wrote:
>
>> Output of $ file /opt/nebula/images/Rhel_Server_5.3.img
>>
>> /opt/nebula/images/Rhel_Server_5.3.img: x86 boot sector; partition
>> 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 1, startsector 63, 20878
>> 2 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x8e, starthead 0, startsector 208845,
>> 16161390 sectors, code offset 0x48
>>
>> Let us know if you need any more details.
>
>
> The image you have is a disk image with partitions. From what I see it
> already has defined 2 partitions, the first one is a linux partition
> and the second one LVM. Here is an excerpt of of partition types got
> with "sfdisk -T":
>
> 82  Linux swap / Solaris
> 83  Linux
> 8e  Linux LVM
>
> To use that kind of disk images you have to specify the disk as sda
> (or hda) as it is a whole disk. The OS will create the sda1 and sda2
> devices accordingly. Also change the swap image to sdb or any other
> device to not clash with the already existing lvm partition in sda2.
>
> I hope it helps.
>
> Bye
>
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> Javier Fontan, Grid & Virtualization Technology Engineer/Researcher
> DSA Research Group: http://dsa-research.org
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>
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Javier Fontan, Grid & Virtualization Technology Engineer/Researcher
DSA Research Group: http://dsa-research.org
Globus GridWay Metascheduler: http://www.GridWay.org
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