xen discuss - Nov 2007 - virt-install is taking around 5 hours to install a paravirt guest (snv_76 on snv_77)

All,

Is this expected ? Normal S11_snv_77 installation takes less then an 
hour. It''s a nice x86 box with enough memory(2G) and solaris iso is 
available on local network.

Thanks,
--Navin

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:06:42PM +0530, Navin.Kumar@sun.com wrote:
> Is this expected ? Normal S11_snv_77 installation takes less then an 
> hour. It''s a nice x86 box with enough memory(2G) and solaris iso
is
> available on local network.
It''s certainly not expected... please file a bug.

cheers
john

Navin.Kumar@Sun.COM wrote:
> All,
>
> Is this expected ? Normal S11_snv_77 installation takes less then an 
> hour. It''s a nice x86 box with enough memory(2G) and solaris iso
is
> available on local network.
>
> Thanks,
> --Navin
> _______________________________________________
> xen-discuss mailing list
> xen-discuss@opensolaris.org
>   
It''s about right.  If it takes the same amount of time as the
bigger/popular Linux distros, Windows, and Mac OS X, then it''s not too
bad.  Indiana cuts this down quite a bit, but all the postinstall
scripts are time consuming, especially for 3rd party "DeveloperTools".
If you were to run the second option for installing instead of the new
installer, you could remove things like StarOffice and AppServ and cut
down the install by 15 min or more.  Since we are talking on
xen-discuss, it''s obvious that adding functionality twice, especially
for desktop applications you have on the host is quite redundant.  So
remove a few of the larger ones using the older installer.

James

John Levon wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:06:42PM +0530, Navin.Kumar@sun.com wrote:
>
>   
>> Is this expected ? Normal S11_snv_77 installation takes less then an 
>> hour. It''s a nice x86 box with enough memory(2G) and solaris
iso is
>> available on local network.
>>     
>
> It''s certainly not expected... please file a bug.
>
> cheers
> john
> _______________________________________________
> xen-discuss mailing list
> xen-discuss@opensolaris.org
>   
Sorry, I just woke up and didn''t read the post well enough, 5 hours is
not normal for virt-install, nonetheless, if possible remove some
packages.  It''s a bug.  Note if the disks and CPU are thrashing, it
shouldn''t peg it too much with the installer, maybe 20% constant.

James