Comments on: How to install & configure Xen Virtualization in openSUSE 11.0

By: rudy

rudy — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:01:51 +0000

Hey I have the Rob bug,

I did everything written above but when; Quote [ Reboot your PC and select “Xen — openSUSE 11.0 - 2.6.25.11-0.1″. This will boot openSUSE with the modified kernel which supports Xen virtualization and everything else loads normally.] End quote
I didn’t load normally but hangs in the nongraphical mode (textmode) in runlevel 5.

I like opensuse 11.0. After reading the above feedback and all the problems you techs and admins have I think me “a regular joe” is going to stay with the seperate hdd booting of my favorite Windows and OpenSuse 11.0 is the way to go, the effortless pushing of the f-8 key is not as bad as driving my fist through the monitor. I would like to add that OpenSuse is probably the best user friendly linux gui OS out there. V is for Vmware tbh

By: jeferson

jeferson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:01:07 +0000

I’m trying to install a first guest into Xen, my server is a openSuse11 and the is a redhat, when I finished the configuration and click OK, the CDRom starts and this message appears:

[Errono 2] No such file or directory: ‘/tmp/tmpXXXXXX/images/xen/vmlinuz”, where XXXXXX is not the same, if I click in OK again.

Thanks,

Jeferson

By: Alex Trinkl

Alex Trinkl — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:51:14 +0000

I tried a new setup, openSuse 11.0, Linux 2.6.25.5-1.1-xen i686, kde 4.0.4 on a Pentium4, 2.8GHz,
I installed the Hypervisor and Tools from YaST and tried to setup a new virtual machine with:

Type: other
Initial Mem: 256
Max Mem: 16384
Virt Proz: 1

Graphics: Papavirtualized Graphics Adapter

Disks:
1: 0.7 GB CD-ROM (file:/home/alex/ubuntu 8.10 i386.iso)
2: 4.0 GB Hard Disk (file:/var/lib/xen/images/Ubuntu/disk0

Network Adapters:
1: Paravirt. : Random MAC

So, all very much default and according to the above HowTo….

Click OK: Error: The installationsource is unusable, Details: 0.7 GB CD-ROM (file:/home/alex/ubuntu 8.10 i386.iso)

If I insert this burned on CD at least it comes to the boot-screen, so what I am doing wrong???? Is this setup out of the box not working with other linux-images?

Has anyone an idea, what stupid mistake I did or what I have to do to get that running. It’s already frustrating to see on various HowTo’s how easy it is to get VM’s running and I am always unlucky getting non-commented error-messages in the very beginning….

Thank’s for any hint,

Alex

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:59:54 +0000

Ok, I got Xen up and running as well and created three VM:s (all Opensuse 11). However, the server becomes very unstable after a while and will lock up completely after an hour or so although there is no activity on the VM:s. I decided to try the free VMWare server and was up and running in under an hour. It has been stable for 24 hours now.

By: HS

HS — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:54:41 +0000

I tried, but I have no connection to internet. Server is directly connected to the router (DSL).

By: HS

HS — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:52:59 +0000

thank you Peter. I will try it.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:35:05 +0000

@HS: No, you make the whole resolv.conf file immutable. Type it on the command line. Please note that this means that you have to set correct DNS IP-addresses in resolv.conf first. And, if you want to change DNS servers you have to edit this file manually from now on.

By: HS

HS — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:28:19 +0000

you mean after DNS addresses I have to write +i ?

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:49:46 +0000

@HS: sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

After I did this, the DNS settings were intact even after reboot.

By: HS

HS — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:39:01 +0000

I have the same problem like Peter. which attribute can make DNS addresses immutable?
In /etc/resolv.conf I have correct DNS addresses!