Comment 3 for bug 273283

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Uxorious (uxorious) wrote : Re: [Bug 273283] Re: xm crashed with Error in <module>()

Hi Evan,

Yeah like I just posted in the bug, I noticed that it wasn't booting
into the hypervisor.

> Intrepid and Jaunty don't ship a dom0 kernel

Wow! Didn't know that. That kinda sucks :-(

> so you'll either have to
> build your own or grab the -xen kernel from Hardy.

Yeah I was looking at building my own right now ... but I might grab
the Hardy one since that will be quicker!

All this work and I probably won't end up using it in the end ... I
think passthrough of a GFX card isn't working yet :-(

Regards,
-Jeppe

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Evan Broder <email address hidden> wrote:
> You have to be using a kernel that's dom0 capable to use Xen. Are you?
> Intrepid and Jaunty don't ship a dom0 kernel, so you'll either have to
> build your own or grab the -xen kernel from Hardy.
>
> What does `uname -r` say?
>
> ** Changed in: xen-3.3 (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Invalid
>
> --
> xm crashed with Error in <module>()
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273283
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> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in “xen-3.3” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> # xm
> ERROR Internal error: Could not obtain handle on privileged command interface (2 = No such file or directory)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/sbin/xm", line 8, in <module>
>    from xen.xm import main
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xm/main.py", line 61, in <module>
>    xc = xen.lowlevel.xc.xc()
> xen.lowlevel.xc.Error: (1, 'Internal error', 'Could not obtain handle on privileged command interface (2 = No such file or directory)')
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/xm
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
> Package: xen-utils-3.3 3.3.0-1ubuntu6
> ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
> ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/sbin/xm
> ProcEnviron:
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
>  PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
>  LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
>  LANGUAGE=ru_RU:ru:en_GB:en
> PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/xm']
> SourcePackage: xen-3.3
> Title: xm crashed with Error in <module>()
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-4-server i686
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