[H-GEN] debugging xen

[Clinton Roy]

Hey again,

Our deployment server runs xen, with each of the applications running
in its own xen image. I'm trying to set xen up on my desktop
so that I can develop an image and then just transfer it to the
deployment box. I've got no experience with xen and am a little
stumped, I'm completely new to all this virtualisation guff.

I've got the following in my grub.cfg file:

menuentry "Xen 3.4" {
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,5)
multiboot /boot/xen-3.4-i386.gz dummy=dummy
root=UUID=25441e29-402b-49be-aa48-41e6d45ec938 ro noreboot
module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-xen-686 console=tty0
module /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-xen-686
}

When trying to boot that I get to see some Xen messages, then some
kernel messages, then the screen goes blank and
hides any useful error messages.

If I remove the vmlinuz line xen halts and complains of no kernel,
fair enough. If I remove the noreboot option the kernel reboots.
The initrd line can be removed with no change of behaviour, so it
appears to be all kernel related.

any clues?
-- 
Clinton Roy
Software Engineer
Global Change Institute
University of Queensland

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