[adding fedora-xen to Cc] On gio, 2013-05-09 at 16:50 -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
Dario Faggioli wrote:
Hi Jim, everyone,
I'm having an issue using the libvirt's libxl driver while installing a Fedora 18 (via netinstall) on both Fedora 18 or rawhide host.
So, what happens is, basically, that I do not see the output from the installer at all, neither in the virt-viewer instance that virt-install does pop-up automatically, nor trying to manually connect to the VM (either with virt-viewer or VNC). So, when I do:
[xen@zhaman ~]$ sudo virt-install --paravirt --name f18-i386 --ram 2048 --vcpus 2 -f /dev/vms/f18_i386 --network bridge=virbr0 --location http://mirrors.rit.edu/fedora/linux//releases/18/Fedora/i386/os/ Starting install... Retrieving file .treeinfo... | 2.4 kB 00:00:00 !!! Retrieving file vmlinuz-PAE... | 9.3 MB 00:00:33 !!! Retrieving file initrd-PAE.img... | 52 MB 00:04:11 !!! Creating domain...
And then, in the virt-viewer window, I see a black screen and all it says is "serial0 console". using `xl console f18-i386' gives me some of the textual output of the installer (but nothing graphical, of course).
Hmm, do you see things like /local/domain/0/backend/console/-1 in xenstore
Not really, no: [xen@zhaman ~]$ sudo xenstore-ls -f| grep console| grep "\-1"
instead of /local/domain/0/backend/console/<vm-id>?
Well, as a mater of fact, I _do_ see /local/domain/0/backend/console/<vm-id> stuff: [xen@zhaman ~]$ sudo xenstore-ls -f| grep console /local/domain/0/console = "" /local/domain/0/console/limit = "1048576" /local/domain/0/console/type = "xenconsoled" /local/domain/0/backend/console = "" /local/domain/0/backend/console/1 = "" /local/domain/0/backend/console/1/0 = "" /local/domain/0/backend/console/1/0/frontend = "/local/domain/1/console" /local/domain/0/backend/console/1/0/frontend-id = "1" /local/domain/0/backend/console/1/0/online = "1" /local/domain/0/backend/console/1/0/state = "1" /local/domain/0/backend/console/1/0/domain = "f18" /local/domain/0/backend/console/1/0/protocol = "vt100" /local/domain/1/console = "" /local/domain/1/console/backend = "/local/domain/0/backend/console/1/0" /local/domain/1/console/backend-id = "0" /local/domain/1/console/limit = "1048576" /local/domain/1/console/type = "xenconsoled" /local/domain/1/console/output = "pty" /local/domain/1/console/port = "2" /local/domain/1/console/ring-ref = "1198695" /local/domain/1/console/tty = "/dev/pts/2" /local/domain/1/console/vnc-port = "5900" /local/domain/1/console/vnc-listen = "127.0.0.1"
I think you need this patch
http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=5420f26507fc5c9853eb1076...
Still think that is the problem, even given the above? Also, how come I'm the only one seeing this?!?! :-/ Thanks and Regards, Dario -- <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)