Hi,
I'm using Xen since Fedora Core 6. My Dom0 runs the latest version of Fedora 8. Currently, I can install a Fedora 8 i386 DomU. The installation always hangs after formatting the virtual hard drive. The only message is "Please wait... This may take a few minutes" (from memory, translated from German). Unfortunately, this message appears not for some minutes but stays "forever" (at least 30 minutes).
My computer is reasonably fast (AMD X2) with plenty of RAM (4 GB). With Fedora 8 (x86_64) this messages is only visible for some seconds. There is no difference if I do install F8 i386 as HVM or PV domain.
One thing I noticed is that I did not manage to install Fedora 8 using QEMU.
Did anyone experience similar issues? I suspect, my local Fedora installation repository may be faulty although all packages are fine (checked with "rpm --checksig *") and I regenerated the repodata multiple times.
Any hints? Thank you very much. fs
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:17:31PM +0100, Felix Schwarz wrote:
Hi,
I'm using Xen since Fedora Core 6. My Dom0 runs the latest version of Fedora 8. Currently, I can install a Fedora 8 i386 DomU. The installation always hangs after formatting the virtual hard drive. The only message is "Please wait... This may take a few minutes" (from memory, translated from German). Unfortunately, this message appears not for some minutes but stays "forever" (at least 30 minutes).
My computer is reasonably fast (AMD X2) with plenty of RAM (4 GB). With Fedora 8 (x86_64) this messages is only visible for some seconds. There is no difference if I do install F8 i386 as HVM or PV domain.
Running paravirt i386 domU on a x86_64 Dom0 is known to be rather unreliable. The message you describe about install hanging during the formatting stage is definitely a symptom of running i386 domU on a x86-64 dom0. You ought to be able to mix- archs if you do HVM instead though, so I'm rather surprised if you see the same problems with HVM guests.
Regards, Dan.
Daniel P. Berrange schrieb:
Running paravirt i386 domU on a x86_64 Dom0 is known to be rather unreliable. The message you describe about install hanging during the formatting stage is definitely a symptom of running i386 domU on a x86-64 dom0. You ought to be able to mix- archs if you do HVM instead though, so I'm rather surprised if you see the same problems with HVM guests.
Yeah, I tried pv i386 just out of curiosity so I checked HVM/qemu quickly thereafter. I can even reproduce the problem (rebooted multiple times etc.).
My setup is quite boring: The DomUs use normal files as "disks" below /var/lib/xen/images with preallocated space (4 GB), they get 500 MB RAM for the initial install, packages are pulled from a HTTP repository server in my local network (shared eth0 bridging, using DHCP/ipv4 only). This setup worked/works for every Fedora version since Core 5 so I'm quite puzzled how to get further debug information...
fs
Felix Schwarz wrote:
This setup worked/works for every Fedora version since Core 5 so I'm quite puzzled how to get further debug information...
Just a short follow-up: It turned out that my repodata was invalid, my baseurl was wrong. After regenerating the repodata (again), everything worked fine :-)
fs
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