i'am new to xen (i used to work with kvm and and full virtualization vm's)
I have a fresh install: squeeze amd64 and xen 4.
Newly created domU's and imported squeeze domU's are working fine.
Now I want import an old lenny 32bit domU:
vm.cfg was:
kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-686"
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-686"
disk = [ 'phy:vxen/vm,sda1,w' ]
root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
I commented kernel and ramdisk lines and added pygrub:
bootloader = '/usr/lib/xen-default/bin/pygrub'
#kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-686"
#ramdisk = "/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-686"
The vm won't boot and i got this message after the grub screen:
Error: (2, 'Invalid kernel', 'elf_xen_note_check: ERROR: Will only load images built for the generic loader or Linux images')
Inside this vm (I can start it on the old server)
Grub is installed
vm:~# dpkg --list | grep grub
ii grub 0.97-47lenny2 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
ii grub-common 1.96+20080724-16 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common files)
In /boot i have those files:
initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-686
initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686
vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-686
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
## ## End Default Options ##
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 (single-user mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
cat /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
I wanted to install grub2 and update, to be able to start in my new dom0,
but update-grub fail
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
warning: grub-probe can't find drive for /dev/sda1.
grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map.
I tried those steps since i use lvm:
nano /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/xvda
cd /dev
mknod xvda b 202 0
dpkg --configure -a
update-grub
Upgrade-grub still fail.
Anyway, anyone knows a solution to run this old vm on my new squeeze dom0?