On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 12:29 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 12:04 +0100, Sandi Romih wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > >
> > > >  kernel = "/etc/xen/kernels/oi151a/unix"
> > > >  ramdisk = "/etc/xen/kernels/oi151a/boot_archive"
> > >
> > > I forget how this works -- do you need to comment these out while using
> > > pygrub or are these paths inside the ISO?
> > > [...]
> > > >  disk =
> > > > [ 'file:/mnt/media/comp_files/os-iso/oi151a.iso,xvdc:cdrom,r' ,
> > > > 'phy:/dev/dom0/oi_boot,xvda,w' ]
> > > >  bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub"
> > >
> > > Sadly I don't think xl is currently capable of booting using pygrub
> from
> > > a file:/// type device.
> >
> > > I expect this will be resolved by Stefano's "qdisk local attach" series
> > > which was on the list last week.
> >
> > Actually, even without my patch series, xl should be able to boot a PV
> > guest using pygrub if (and only if) the disk is a raw file.
>
> Yes, I've just realised that while editing
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Debian_Guest_Installation_Using_Debian_Installeras part of the dos day -- it seems to work for me at least.
>
> Perhaps the issue here is the use of kernel= and ramdisk= instead of
> bootloader_args? (see the new CD install section of that Debian install
> guide for an example of the sort of thing which works for me)
>
> Ian.
>
> >
> >
> > > In the meantime as a workaround you could try using losetup on the iso
> > > and pointing xl at phy:/dev/loop$N.
> >
> > that should also work
>
>
> Hello guys,

Thanks for the responses.

I have been doing some testing, to see if I could find out what could be
causing the problem.
I have, once again, reinstalled the whole system as I wanted a clean
system, and now I can get the system to create my openindiana VM (with the
bootloader property in the cfg file), however it will not boot fully.

What I did discover is that the VM boot is halted by the vif option in my
cfg file. If I comment it out, the vm boots fine, but of course I cant
complete the install without the network IF present.
I tried creating a different networking architecture as laid out in the xen
wiki's, but with no difference in the behavior.
Occasionally I would get errors in the VM regarding network IF not being
correctly initialized (or something to that extent), which reinforces my
suspicions regarding networking causing the problems

I had all this working in my initial setup, 3.1.9 kernel with xen 4.2
unstable 14785, now I am running kernel 3.1.10. The major differences are
that before I used a file based disk image while now I am using LVM disk
image (or partition), and that I did not patch xen with the Solaris pvgrub
patch. My current disk definition is:

 disk = [ 'file:/mnt/media/comp_files/os-iso/oi151a.iso,xvdc:cdrom,r' ,
'phy:/dev/xen-dom0/oi_boot,xvda,w' ]

Have I perhaps made an error here?

Hope that I have not rambled on too much and confused you.

Best regards

Sandi