[xen-tools-discuss] Re: Xen-create-image hangs

[Nick Anderson]

Viswanath Thangamuthu wrote:
> All,
> 
> I installed xen on ubuntu using apt-get-install.Then I installed xen-tools-3.9 (which I downloaded from http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools).xen-create-image command hangs When I tried to create guest domain.
>  
> Here is the log file output
> root at xxxxx-desktop:~# tail -f /var/log/xen-tools/guest01.log
>       
> Installation method: debootstrap
> Falling back to default debootstrap command
> 
> Copying files from host to image.
> Copying files from /var/cache/apt/archives -> /tmp/6BpPJDGQ4M/var/cache/apt/archives
> Done
> Done
> I: Retrieving Release    ===> It stopped here.
> 
> Here is the xen-create-image command output when I ran on my machine
> 
> root at xxxxx-desktop:/# xen-create-image --hostname=guest01 --ip=192.168.1.100 --dir=/home/xen --dist=sarge
> 
> General Information
> --------------------
> Hostname       :  guest01
> Distribution   :  sarge
> Partitions     :  swap            128Mb (swap)
>                   /               4Gb   (ext3)
> Image type     :  sparse
> Memory size    :  128Mb
> Kernel path    :  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-xen
> 
> Networking Information
> ----------------------
> IP Address 1   : 192.168.1.100 [MAC: 00:16:3E:2F:31:C1]
> Netmask        : 255.255.255.0
> Gateway        : 192.168.1.1
> 
> 
> Creating partition image: /home/xen/domains/guest01/swap.img
> Done
> 
> Creating swap on /home/xen/domains/guest01/swap.img
> Done
> 
> Creating partition image: /home/xen/domains/guest01/disk.img
> Done
> 
> Creating ext3 filesystem on /home/xen/domains/guest01/disk.img
> Done
> Installation method: debootstrap
> 
> Kindly help me to get rid of this..
Without looking at the output when run on my machine that looks right. 
What behavior are you expecting? xen-create-image creates a file system 
for the specified distro. In this case debian sarge. It should have left 
img files in /home/xen/domains/guest01 and it should have created a xen 
config file in /etc/xen


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