Hi! I've been playing with Xen on a CentOS 5 box, and it's working great. I now want to do the same thing on my Fedora 7 box, and it's not working so great. I'm trying to install with this command: virt-install -n testvm -r 256 -f /var/lib/xen/images/testvm.img -b eth0 --nographics -p -l nfs:192.168.0.22:/var/lib/xen/images/media/fedora-7-dvd-i386/ If I use "--vnc" instead of "--nographics", then it works. However, I want a headless virtual machine. By the way, if I create it using virt-manager (the GUI), it works fine (although it gives me a GUI installer, not the text installer). Below is the output from the virt-install command above. Regards, Msquared... ------------------- Starting install... libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: Creating domain... 0 B 00:00 Linux version 2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen (kojibuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12)) #1 SMP Tue May 22 08:53:03 EDT 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: sanitize start sanitize bail 0 copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 0000000010800000 end: 0000000010800000 type: 1 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000010800000 (usable) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 264MB LOWMEM available. NX (Execute Disable) protection: active Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 67584 Normal 67584 -> 67584 HighMem 67584 -> 67584 early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 67584 ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 67056 Kernel command line: method=nfs:192.168.0.22:/var/lib/xen/images/install/fedora-7-dvd-i386/ Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c135f000 soft=c133f000 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes) Xen reported: 2666.666 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Lock dependency validator: Copyright (c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar ... MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES: 8 ... MAX_LOCK_DEPTH: 30 ... MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS: 2048 ... CLASSHASH_SIZE: 1024 ... MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES: 8192 ... MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS: 16384 ... CHAINHASH_SIZE: 8192 memory used by lock dependency info: 1064 kB per task-struct memory footprint: 1200 bytes Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Software IO TLB disabled vmalloc area: d1000000-f4ffe000, maxmem 2d7fe000 Memory: 245120k/270336k available (2030k kernel code, 16724k reserved, 1079k data, 180k init, 0k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xf5315000 - 0xf57fe000 (5028 kB) pkmap : 0xf5000000 - 0xf5200000 (2048 kB) vmalloc : 0xd1000000 - 0xf4ffe000 ( 575 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xd0800000 ( 264 MB) .init : 0xc130e000 - 0xc133b000 ( 180 kB) .data : 0xc11fb8b9 - 0xc1309714 (1079 kB) .text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc11fb8b9 (2030 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6670.14 BogoMIPS (lpj=13340297) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 4096K Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed Brought up 1 CPUs Grant table initialized NET: Registered protocol family 16 Brought up 1 CPUs PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub Setting up standard PCI resources BUG: at kernel/fork.c:994 copy_process() [<c1005d9e>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [<c1006347>] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [<c10063c2>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 [<c101d040>] copy_process+0x195/0x1245 [<c101e140>] do_fork+0x50/0x117 [<c1003351>] kernel_thread+0x8e/0x96 [<c102c6fd>] __call_usermodehelper+0x2d/0x46 [<c102cd4b>] run_workqueue+0x89/0x145 [<c102d70d>] worker_thread+0xd5/0x102 [<c102ff23>] kthread+0xb3/0xdc [<c10058df>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 ======================= ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver. usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb PCI: System does not support PCI PCI: System does not support PCI NetLabel: Initializing NetLabel: domain hash size = 128 NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4 NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192) TCP reno registered checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 7264k freed IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1192638345.534:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 rtc: IRQ 8 is not free. Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0 Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0 Event-channel device installed. usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. i8042.c: No controller found. mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice TCP bic registered Initializing XFRM netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI No-Shortcut mode XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0 Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 762k