Fedora xen - Nov 2006 - FC6 w updates: xenguest-install.py hangs on Dell poweredge

I again have the problem that the installer hangs while installing a
xenu. The symptoms are that the last you see is the

"Starting install process.  This may take several minutes..."

I can still send a shutdown over the xm command. "xm top" shows no CPU
usage whatsoever. I gave it a GB of ram and it reports only using 25%.

It''s a stock install, with all options unselected,
"customize" picked,
and all options again unselected, using the default partition scheme on a
4GB diskfile. With selinux disabled on the dom0.

The hardware is a Dell poweredge (I believe an 850), with a single P4,
4GB of ram and SATA disks.

The dom0 is a i386 image install of FC6 with all updates.

Paul

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 07:34:06PM +0100, Paul Wouters
wrote:
> 
> I again have the problem that the installer hangs while installing a
> xenu. The symptoms are that the last you see is the
> 
> "Starting install process.  This may take several minutes..."
> 
> I can still send a shutdown over the xm command. "xm top" shows
no CPU
> usage whatsoever. I gave it a GB of ram and it reports only using 25%.
> 
> It''s a stock install, with all options unselected,
"customize" picked,
> and all options again unselected, using the default partition scheme on a
> 4GB diskfile. With selinux disabled on the dom0.
Is it a FC6 guest you''re installing, or something else ?
> The hardware is a Dell poweredge (I believe an 850), with a single P4,
> 4GB of ram and SATA disks.
> 
> The dom0 is a i386 image install of FC6 with all updates.
Are you sure ? Because there is no xenguest-install.py in FC6. It got
renamed first to xenguest-install, and then to virt-install just before
release. FC5 should be the only place where xenguest-install.py is
still distributed. What ''xen'' RPM version have you got ?

Regards,
Dan.
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Is it a FC6 guest you''re installing, or something else ?
Yes.
> > The hardware is a Dell poweredge (I believe an 850), with a single P4,
> > 4GB of ram and SATA disks.
> >
> > The dom0 is a i386 image install of FC6 with all updates.
>
> Are you sure ? Because there is no xenguest-install.py in FC6. It got
> renamed first to xenguest-install, and then to virt-install just before
> release. FC5 should be the only place where xenguest-install.py is
> still distributed. What ''xen'' RPM version have you got ?
Uhm yeah. long live tab completion. I didnt even notice. The commandline
used was:

xenguest-install -n ftp.xtdnet.nl -f /children/ftp.xtdnet.nl/ftp.xtdnet.nl.img
--nographics -p -l ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/fedora/core/6/i386/os/ -x
"noacpi noapic" -r 1024


(the noapic noacpi was a test in the hope tht it would fix my issue).

Also, I can still do xm shutdown and then I see the system halting.

Paul
> Regards,
> Dan.
>
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Paul Wouters wrote:
> xenguest-install -n ftp.xtdnet.nl -f
/children/ftp.xtdnet.nl/ftp.xtdnet.nl.img --nographics -p -l
ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/fedora/core/6/i386/os/ -x "noacpi
noapic" -r 1024
>
>
> (the noapic noacpi was a test in the hope tht it would fix my issue).
>
> Also, I can still do xm shutdown and then I see the system halting.
Using kpartx and losetup, I checked the filesystems. They hasn''t been
any writing apart from formatting done to the disk. So no logfiles of
the anaconda installer to see what went wrong either :

Paul