[Openstack] Ubuntu run instance error + xen

Joshua Harlow harlowja at yahoo-inc.com
Fri Aug 19 00:54:45 UTC 2011


Hi all,

On xen + openstack diaboli-3 when running an instance with the generic ubuntu UEC images  from http://wiki.openstack.org/RunningNova#Registering_the_image  I am seeing the following:

[    0.210681] VFS: Cannot open root device "xvda" or unknown-block(0,0)
[    0.210691] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[    0.210708] ca00            8192 sda driver: vbd
[    0.210720] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

This is on debian 6 (x86-64), is this a location that exists for others?

Here is the xml that was used to create this instance. It looks pretty standard. Any xen users out there encountered this?

<domain type='xen' id='18'>
  <name>instance-0000002b</name>
  <uuid>a1655436-d1c6-3e2c-bf57-a9c487f21e27</uuid>
  <memory>524288</memory>
  <currentMemory>524288</currentMemory>
  <vcpu>1</vcpu>
  <bootloader></bootloader>
  <os>
    <type>linux</type>
    <kernel>/home/ctoteam/nova/nova/..//instances/instance-0000002b/kernel</kernel>
    <cmdline>root=/dev/xvda ro</cmdline>
  </os>
  <clock offset='utc'/>
  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/lib/xen-4.0/bin/qemu-dm</emulator>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='file'/>
      <source file='/home/ctoteam/nova/nova/..//instances/instance-0000002b/disk'/>
      <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
    </disk>
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <mac address='02:16:3e:65:67:59'/>
      <source bridge='pan0'/>
      <script path='/etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge'/>
      <target dev='vif18.0'/>
    </interface>
    <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/2'>
      <source path='/dev/pts/2'/>
      <target type='xen' port='0'/>
    </console>
    <input type='mouse' bus='xen'/>
    <graphics type='vnc' port='5900' autoport='yes' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='en-us'/>
  </devices>
</domain>




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