[Slackbuilds-users] xen again

[Chris Abela]

Reading http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.1/system/xen/dom0/README.dom0
I understand that you need a custom kernel for dom0.

Chris
On 16 Aug 2014 16:51, "Paul McCormack" <islandmarmot at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I'm not sure that my first post made it through so the humour may be
> lost but here goes.
>
>
>  I have a dom0 running on Slackware64 14.1, 3.10.17 with multilib and
> updated using slackpkg "Slackware64 14.1"
>
>
>  xl list gives me
>
>
>  Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s)
>
> Domain-0 0 512 4 r----- 9.2
>
>
>  I built the domU image as per the slackbuild and I can mount it. I
> modified the script to install from a USB drive. This works but lilo did
> not run.
>
>
>  when I try to create the domain xl panics..
>
>
>  In the mydom config file the first two lines are
>
>
>  kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-xen"
>
> ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-xen.gz"
>
>
>  So I'm a little confused as I expected to see
>
>
>  kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz"
>
> ramdisk = "/boot/initrd.gz"
>
>
>  Checking the slackware.img /boot/vmlinuz -> /boot/vmlinuz-huge-3.10.17
>
>
>  I guess that the way forward is to either copy the "*-xen" files to
> mnt/boot and or run mkinitrd.
>
>
>  I think the former due to fact that we symlink lib/modules/3.10.17-xen
> to lib/modules/3.10.17
>
>
>  ok tried that - copied vmlinuz-xen and initrd-xem.gz over to boot no
> change
>
>
>  xl create -c mydom results in.........
>
>
>  -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Parsing config from mydom
>
> xc: error: panic: xc_dom_bzimageloader.c:655: xc_dom_probe_bzimage_kernel:
> boot protocol too old (0203): Invalid kernel
>
> xc: error: panic: xc_dom_core.c:621: xc_dom_find_loader: no loader found:
> Invalid kernel
>
> libxl: error: libxl_dom.c:384:libxl__build_pv: xc_dom_parse_image failed:
> No such file or directory
>
> libxl: error: libxl_create.c:900:domcreate_rebuild_done: cannot (re-)build
> domain: -3
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>  am I heading in the right direction here? I've tried searching and can't
> figure it out.
>
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