Re: [Fedora-xen] XEN-3.0.3 on RHEL-5, fully virtualized guest of RH72 won't start after install finishes.

I have many boxes running rh-7.2 (these are stripped down, minimal installs, for appliances on a private network that isn't routable) I want to run VIRTUAL images of the same setup for testing purposes. I read the Fedora 6 XEN getting started guide and skimmed through the FAQ. I browsed through this mailing list to see if I could find my problem here as well. No luck. I have a Dell-2950 with Quad Core XEON processors, PAE, VMX, and it is enabled in BIOS. 8GB RAM, 2GB assigned to Dom0 Booted into RHEL-5 Xen kernel, installed all the latest patches as of 6/11/2007, and rebooted. Then Started Virtual Machine Manager GUI Selected "New..." from File menu and followed the wizard. then installed FULLY VIRTUALIZED RH-72 from original Red Hat 7.2 CD's this went fine with the Virtual Machine Manager GUI "New Machine" wizard. The only non-usual thing I did for an RH72 install was to give it the kernel boot option mem=500M After the install completed, the DomU guest said it was now going to reboot and I should remove any CD's. Then the DomU disappeared. It took me forever to figure out that I couldn't use the virt-manager GUI to restore a DomU configuration file. There really should be a more intuitive way for this to work. I am not a dummy, and it took me forever to figure out how to start the DomU again.

Now that I figured out that I have to go to a command line prompt and type "xm create -c /etc/xen/rh72-test",

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffff printing eip: c0204a00 *pde = 00001063 *pte = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0204a00>] EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: fffffff ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000004 edx: 00000004 esi: fffffff edi: c0229972 ebp: 0008e000 esp: c0257fb4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c0257000) Stack: c026d6e8 0000000 c024.... ... ... Call Trace: [<.... Code: f3 a6 ... <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!