Help with XEN partitioning for Virtual Machines

[Tekygirl]

3/18/09 I want to setup a server with xen to run two virtual oes2 sp 1 netware servers with nss volumes. I need to know how to partition the xen install to make way for the virtual machines. I guess I don't understand how the space for the virtual partition is allocated, although I have tried many differents setups to install the virtual machines. This is very frustrating, I am floundering and ready to try the free version of vmware soon. I wanted to make Xen work, but not sure that it is in the realm of possibilites for my setup. Any comment directing my footsteps would be greatly appreciated.

I have been trying to setup SUSE 10 SP2 XEN host server. I have a RAID 5 with 1.8 tb of space and 8gb ram and quad cpu. I have setup the partitions (see below) but am having major trouble getting a virtual machine to load the os.

dev/sda 1.8 TB Adaptec Array One scsi array
dev/sda1 5 GB linux native /boot
dev/sda2 8 gb swap /swap
dev/sda 100 gb linux lvm evms lvm2/system
dev/system 100 gb EVMS/system
dev/system/swap 8 gb EVMS/swap
dev/system/syslnx 92 gb EVMS/syslnx
dev/sda4 1.6 TB extended

I can setup the xen but when it comes to installing a virtual machine, the install begins but then errors out with 'out of disk space.' I have the install .iso packages on my desktop like the instructions call for but it doesn't work. I have even created a partition from the extended partition with 300gb space and tried to use it for the virtual machine space, but I still get the same error.


Crazy in Kansas!

Please HELP!!!!!!!

[deakons]

Can you post your virtual machine(domU) config file?

[Tekygirl]

I am out of the office right now but I will do it before I leave for the day. Thanks.

[Tekygirl]

What command would I use to get the system config file? Or do you want a copy of a file? I am new to this so not sure what I need to do to get the info you are asking for...

[Tekygirl]

I can't even get a virtual machine loaded. It times out with a disk if full error. I thought you meant the host server config file. sorry

[deakons]

The domain config file is what is passed to the xm command upon domain creation.

xm create yourconfigfile

This file will contain settings for the domain's vcpus, disks, nic, etc.

Depending upon your distro, sample config files will be located in /etc/xen, by the name of xmexample1 and xmexample2.

The xm command must be run inside the control domain (dom0), which is running when you boot the xen kernel (e.g. 2.6.18-xen).