alpine-(virt)-3.4.0 installation as domU fails on Xen 4.6

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#1 Thu, 2016-06-09 02:25
suobj
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Hi,

I am trying to install alpine 3.4.0 as domU on Xen 4.6.

Setup:
- Xen 4.6
- debian jessie (8.4) as dom0
- alpine-3.3.3 as domU1 ( *working* )
- alpine-xen-3.3.3 as domU2 ( *working* )

So everything is working fine when using all variations of alpine-3.3.3 but errors are thrown when trying to install ANY variation of alpine-3.4.0, alpine-virt-3.4.0, or alpine-xen-3.4.0.

I am getting these errors:

libxl: error: libxl_dom.c:37:libxl__domain_type: unable to get domain type 
for domid=35 
xl: unable to exec console client: No such file or directory 
libxl: error: libxl_exec.c:118:libxl_report_child_exitstatus: console child 
[14207] exited with error status 1 

I followed this guide: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Create_Alpine_Linux_PV_DomU

Here are the files: https://gist.github.com/SunilObj/4c32f1007301b896d3127bd1316a283b

Please take a look at the xl_create.log file above, errors are at the end.

Thanks!

Sat, 2016-08-20 09:52
aniou
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Probably all you need is a pvh=1 directive in domain's config. Looks like a new Alpine kernel is built with CONFIG_XEN_PVH=y. See also at https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Software_Overview#PVH

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