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pentium4borg
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 Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 4:25 am Post subject: [SOLVED] Xen 4.2.1: Root fs device missing (/dev/xvda) |
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I just upgraded my computer from an old kernel (2.6.34-xen) to 3.6.11, and upgraded Xen to 4.2.0. I can't seem to get my domU to boot, as it can't find the root filesystem.
I've compiled a domU kernel (also 3.6.11) with xen-blkfront built-in and set the domU config file with this disk configuration:
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disk = [ 'file:/home/data/xen/megatron/root.img,xvda,w' ]
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(The disk is just a file with an ext3 filesystem, I can mount it on loopback in dom0)
After I xl start my domU, xl block-list in dom0 shows the device connected to the domU but the domU kernel (with root=/dev/xvda) can't find the root filesystem:
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XENBUS: Timeout connecting to device: device/vbd/51712 (local state 3, remote state 1)
console [netcon0] enabled
netconsole: network logging started
ALSA device list:
No soundcards found.
md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect
md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
VFS: Cannot open root device "xvda" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.6.11-gentoo #8
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff815c59ff>] ? panic+0xc5/0x1cc
[<ffffffff815c5bd9>] ? printk+0x4c/0x51
[<ffffffff819990cd>] ? mount_block_root+0x1d4/0x1f2
[<ffffffff8108ebaa>] ? lg_local_lock+0x11/0x14
[<ffffffff81002930>] ? kvm_io_bus_sort_cmp+0x1c/0x27
[<ffffffff8110fcf8>] ? sys_mknodat+0x12c/0x140
[<ffffffff8199920f>] ? mount_root+0x124/0x12b
[<ffffffff81999d8f>] ? initrd_load+0x303/0x309
[<ffffffff8199937e>] ? prepare_namespace+0x168/0x19e
[<ffffffff81998702>] ? kernel_init+0x17f/0x191
[<ffffffff8199852b>] ? parse_early_options+0x2a/0x2a
[<ffffffff815cf644>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<ffffffff815c8338>] ? retint_restore_args+0x5/0x6
[<ffffffff815cf640>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13
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I have checked and I definitely have the correct kernel configuration for my domU (including the block frontend driver).
On further investigation, it seems that the file block-device backend driver or something isn't working. In dom0, when I run
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xl block-attach Domain-0 file:/home/data/xen/megatron/root.img xvda w
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I can see the output when I run "xl block-list Domain-0". /dev/xvda is missing and dmesg shows nothing. However, when I create a loop device with losetup and run block-attach with phy:/dev/loop1, xl block-attach creates /dev/xvda which I can then mount successfully.
Has anyone else run into this? I'm not sure if file-backend disk support has changed in Xen 4.2 / newer Linux kernel versions, if I have bad configuration somewhere, or if this is a bug in Xen.
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I found the solution, which was that I didn't have CONFIG_XEN_GNTDEV=y set in my kernel configuration.
I have also noticed that if I enable CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND=y in the dom0 kernel, domUs don't see their network interfaces (even though they're created and visible on dom0). Strange.
For kernel configuration options, see this: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Mainline_Linux_Kernel_Configs |
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dblaci
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| I had CONFIG_XEN_GNTDEV=y in the kernel on Dom0, and loaded the module, but the problem was not solved. If I added the block device dynamically, then nothing happened, and no error was logged anywhere (I looked at). But when I added the block device in the config, it complained about qemu-dm executable missing. So I enabled the qemu use flag for 'app-emulation/xen-tools-4.2.1-r1' and now it seems to work fine. |
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