[xen-tools-discuss] xen version 4.2.1 bug creating natty guest

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 06:38:16PM +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> I have a server with Debian squeeze as the host
> 
> Creating Debian guests works fine no issues, yet when i come to
> create Ubuntu natty 64bit guests i always end up in an initramfs.

Works for me, at least with current development version (which
will be released as 4.3 within the next days) and I can't remember having
changed something at that part of xen-tools:

Debian Squeeze amd64 as Dom0, Ubuntu Natty amd64 as DomU:

xen-create-image --hostname=test --lvm vg0 --dhcp --force --verbose --dist=natty --pygrub

> i followed the tail end of this tutorial
> 
> http://www.mmacleod.ca/blog/2011/05/ubuntu-natty-narwhal-and-xen/
> 
> and yet its still not booting? is this an issue in xen-tools itself?

Not sure. Maybe related to this:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640099
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen-tools/+bug/839492

Possibly Ubuntu has included some xen* modules in their kernels which
could make DomU booting fail to find the disk if they're missing.

> please let me know if you need anything or any more information
> regarding this issue.

The xen-create-image command-line you used. The xen-tools.conf
settings in case you changed them.

		Kind regards, Axel
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