Hi folks,

I’ve been able to kickstart a number of VMs using the virt-install tool, and so far have had pretty good success. One aspect of these installs has me a bit concerned, though. In most cases, anytime the kickstart needs to do intensive disk activity (such as formatting partitions, or installing all the rpms) there are noticible hangs, which I’m guessing come from some kind of IO wait. The result is that a kickstart which should take < 10 minutes ends up taking a half-hour or so.

I’m using pretty standard hardware, Dell 1850s with 2 internal drives. Xvda setup to be 4G, using 500M of memory. Pretty vanilla installs really.

Any insight into what might be causing these IO hangs?

Thanks,

-- Dan