From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 19:01:05 -0700 From: "Jonny Morrill" To: 9fans@9fans.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_5037_21862002.1211248865498" Subject: [9fans] Xen Installation Topicbox-Message-UUID: ab5129da-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_5037_21862002.1211248865498 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hello, I am completely new to plan9. I heard about it when I took a tour of a supercomputer cluster that was running a hybrid version of plan9 and linux. I am very interested in getting a system up and running to try it out. I have a home suse server running the latest version, 10.3. I would like to install plan9 as a virtual machine with xen. I ran through the tutorial located here. However, when i tried to create the Domain i got this error: coruscant:/usr/xen9 # xm create plan9inst -c Using config file "/etc/xen/vm/plan9inst". Error: Invalid event handling mode: shutdown Here is my xm info output: coruscant:/usr/xen9 # xm info host : coruscant release : 2.6.22.17-0.1-xen version : #1 SMP 2008/02/10 20:01:04 UTC machine : i686 nr_cpus : 1 nr_nodes : 1 sockets_per_node : 1 cores_per_socket : 1 threads_per_core : 1 cpu_mhz : 448 hw_caps : 0383f9ff:00000000:00000000:00000040 total_memory : 191 free_memory : 10 max_free_memory : 10 max_para_memory : 6 max_hvm_memory : 0 xen_major : 3 xen_minor : 1 xen_extra : .0_15042-51.3 xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_32 xen_scheduler : credit xen_pagesize : 4096 platform_params : virt_start=0xfc000000 xen_changeset : 15042 cc_compiler : gcc version 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux) cc_compile_by : abuild cc_compile_domain : suse.de cc_compile_date : Thu Dec 20 19:25:32 UTC 2007 xend_config_format : 4 Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated! Jonny ------=_Part_5037_21862002.1211248865498 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hello,

I am completely new to plan9. I heard about it when I took a tour of a supercomputer cluster that was running a hybrid version of plan9 and linux. I am very interested in getting a system up and running to try it out. I have a home suse server running the latest version, 10.3. I would like to install plan9 as a virtual machine with xen. I ran through the tutorial located here. However, when i tried to create the Domain i got this error:

coruscant:/usr/xen9 # xm create plan9inst -c
Using config file "/etc/xen/vm/plan9inst".
Error: Invalid event handling mode: shutdown


Here is my xm info output:

coruscant:/usr/xen9 # xm info
host                   : coruscant
release                : 2.6.22.17-0.1-xen
version                : #1 SMP 2008/02/10 20:01:04 UTC
machine                : i686
nr_cpus                : 1
nr_nodes               : 1
sockets_per_node       : 1
cores_per_socket       : 1
threads_per_core       : 1
cpu_mhz                : 448
hw_caps                : 0383f9ff:00000000:00000000:00000040
total_memory           : 191
free_memory            : 10
max_free_memory        : 10
max_para_memory        : 6
max_hvm_memory         : 0
xen_major              : 3
xen_minor              : 1
xen_extra              : .0_15042-51.3
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_32
xen_scheduler          : credit
xen_pagesize           : 4096
platform_params        : virt_start=0xfc000000
xen_changeset          : 15042
cc_compiler            : gcc version 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)
cc_compile_by          : abuild
cc_compile_domain      : suse.de
cc_compile_date        : Thu Dec 20 19:25:32 UTC 2007
xend_config_format     : 4


Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated!

Jonny
 ------=_Part_5037_21862002.1211248865498-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10805192022x7621438yc96f6b81b65a5e99@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 20:22:21 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Subject: Re: [9fans] Xen Installation Topicbox-Message-UUID: ab597b58-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 here's the best help I can give: don't use xen. Use qemu, kvm, or lguest, all of which are far easier to set up. thanks ron p.s. I wrote the first Xen port. If Xen had not turned bad, I would not be giving you this advice. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8d9c091a0805192056q2df11104k133c084c6ed00a2e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:56:26 -0400 From: "Curt Micol" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <13426df10805192022x7621438yc96f6b81b65a5e99@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10805192022x7621438yc96f6b81b65a5e99@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Xen Installation Topicbox-Message-UUID: ab604b0e-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:22 PM, ron minnich wrote: > here's the best help I can give: don't use xen. [snip] > p.s. I wrote the first Xen port. If Xen had not turned bad, I would > not be giving you this advice. Hey ron, Could you explain what 'turned bad' and why you no longer prefer xen? This is just for my own curiosity, I'd like to hear your opinion. I'll also begin looking through the archives to see if I missed something there. Thanks, -- # Curt Micol From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10805192122j3877dfbdyc507f15571cc89f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 21:22:11 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: asenchi@asenchi.com, "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <8d9c091a0805192056q2df11104k133c084c6ed00a2e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10805192022x7621438yc96f6b81b65a5e99@mail.gmail.com> <8d9c091a0805192056q2df11104k133c084c6ed00a2e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Xen Installation Topicbox-Message-UUID: ab665652-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Curt Micol wrote: > Could you explain what 'turned bad' and why you no longer prefer xen? > This is just for my own curiosity, I'd like to hear your opinion. > I'll also begin looking through the archives to see if I missed > something there. > mainly, the over-use of python where C would do, with the concomitant mess of weird errors and untraceable failures. The xenstore was also a disaster, a half-way file system that never quite worked to this day. Add in XML-RPC, in python yet, and you have a gooey stew of obscure and hard to fix errors. We did a small distro with xen, and were glad to move to lguest instead. Much, much easier. Kind of sad, as I actually really like the Xen guys, but things just didn't go very well after v2. ron From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 07:07:25 +0100 From: "Stefan Hajnoczi" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <13426df10805192122j3877dfbdyc507f15571cc89f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10805192022x7621438yc96f6b81b65a5e99@mail.gmail.com> <8d9c091a0805192056q2df11104k133c084c6ed00a2e@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10805192122j3877dfbdyc507f15571cc89f@mail.gmail.com> Cc: asenchi@asenchi.com Subject: Re: [9fans] Xen Installation Topicbox-Message-UUID: ab6ced82-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Error: Invalid event handling mode: shutdown For the record: Xen has changed the way shutdown/reboot/crash behavior is specified in the domain config file (several times?). The quickest fix is to just delete lines related to shutdown/reboot/crash from /etc/xen/vm/plan9inst. If you want control over that behavior, check the relevant Xen documentation. Like Ron says, QEMU, kvm, or lguest are better for running Plan 9. Stefan From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 17:44:23 -0700 From: "Jonny Morrill" To: 9fans@9fans.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_350_8587651.1211330663267" Subject: Re: [9fans] Xen Installation Topicbox-Message-UUID: abffecc2-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_350_8587651.1211330663267 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Thanks alot for the suggestions! You guys are on top of things here I can see. It's nice to have a strong community to help out with the details of a new system. I'm looking forward to seeing how well plan9 works! Cheers, Jonny ------=_Part_350_8587651.1211330663267 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
Thanks alot for the suggestions! You guys are on top of things here I can see. It's nice to have a strong community to help out with the details of a new system. I'm looking forward to seeing how well plan9 works!

Cheers,
Jonny
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