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2006-Nov-27 20:44 UTC
Re: [Fedora-xen] FC6 w updates: xenguest-install.py hangs on Dell poweredge
>From: fedora-xen-request@redhat.com >Reply-To: fedora-xen@redhat.com >To: fedora-xen@redhat.com >Subject: Fedora-xen Digest, Vol 12, Issue 52 >Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:00:10 -0500 (EST) >>Message: 1 >Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:50:52 +0100 (CET) >From: Paul Wouters <paul@xelerance.com> >Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] FC6 w updates: xenguest-install.py hangs on > Dell poweredge >To: ". ." <porjo38@hotmail.com> >Cc: fedora-xen@redhat.com >Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611271648590.27487@tla.xelerance.com> >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > >On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, . . wrote: > > > 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 > > > > Hi, > > > > I''m having exactly the same issue trying to load a new Xen guest system. >My > > setup is: > > > > AMD64, 1Gig RAM, SATA Hard disk > > Fedora Core 6 x86_64 - Dom0 > > > > I''m using FC6 for the guest system also, installing to a partition of >the hard > > disk - /dev/sda15 > > The installation source is an NFS mount of the FC6 DVD media (in the >local DVD > > drive). > > > > It gets to the "Starting install process. This may take several >minutes..." > > and just sits there. Every couple of minutes, the DVD drives spins up >and > > reads but nothing else happens - like it''s stuck in a loop of some kind. >The > > log files in /var/log/xen don''t give any clues. > >I did not get past this yet. I ended up doing a manual yum install with >yum: > >yum -c yum-xen.conf --installroot=/mnt -y groupinstall Base > >Though perhaps next time I''ll use a qemu install using the ISO DVD. > >Paul > > > >------------------------------ > >-- >Fedora-xen mailing list >Fedora-xen@redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen > > >End of Fedora-xen Digest, Vol 12, Issue 52 >******************************************Hi Paul, That''s a good idea. I''m only somewhat familiar with this method - I understand that you are mounting the Guest filesystem to /mnt then using yum to install packages onto it. Do you have a good ''howto'' you can recommend that describes this procedure. Also, could you cat your yum-xen.conf file for me? I''m not sure what you mean by a ''qemu install'' - can you elaborate on that? Thanks, Ian. _________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: Looking to expand your DVD collection? Go to www.tradingpost.com.au http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etradingpost%2Ecom%2Eau%2Fbrowse%2FEntertainment%2DElectronics%2FDVDs%2DCDs%2DVideos%2DRecords%2DTapes%2Floc%5FlocRZSQregtAVSCdistRZSQAVSCstateRZSQ9AVSCregRZSQ%5Fns%5FTrue%5Foff%5F0%5Fsqt%5F1%5Fstpg%5F0%5F%3Freferrer%3Dplace1&_t=758874129&_r=emailtagline_nov&_m=EXT
Paul Wouters
2006-Nov-27 20:59 UTC
Re: [Fedora-xen] FC6 w updates: xenguest-install.py hangs on Dell poweredge
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, . . wrote:> That''s a good idea. I''m only somewhat familiar with this method - I understand > that you are mounting the Guest filesystem to /mnt then using yum to install > packages onto it. Do you have a good ''howto'' you can recommend that describes > this procedure. Also, could you cat your yum-xen.conf file for me? I''m not > sure what you mean by a ''qemu install'' - can you elaborate on that?dd if=/dev/zero of=fc6-i386.img bs=1M count=1 seek=4096 /sbin/mke2fs -F -j fc6-i386.img mount -o loop fc6-i386.img /mnt mkdir /mnt/dev mkdir /mnt/proc mkdir /mnt/etc for i in console null zero ; do /sbin/MAKEDEV -d /mnt/dev -x $i ; done create /mnt/etc/fstab with: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 mount -t proc none /mnt/proc create yum-xen.conf with: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log exclude=*-debuginfo gpgcheck=0 obsoletes=1 reposdir=/dev/null [base] name=Fedora Core 6 - i386 - Base mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-6 enabled=1 [updates-released] name=Fedora Core 6 - i386 - Released Updates mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc6 enabled=1 run: yum -c yum-xen.conf --installroot=/mnt -y groupinstall Base find /mnt/var/cache/yum -name \*.rpm | xargs rm mv /mnt/lib/tls /mnt/lib/tls-disabled [edit /mnt/etc/sysconfig/selinux if you want to disabled it] sync umount /mnt create the xen config, using root=/dev/hda1 and the diskimage pointing to "hda1". Using qemu you simply do: dd if=/dev/zero of=fc6-i386.img bs=1M count=1 seek=4096 qemu -hda fc6-i386.img -cdrom fc6-dvd.iso -boot d -nographics after it is done, create the xen config using pygrub and xvda as diskimage. (like the current installer creates for you) Paul