Hi, I have a FC6 machine: Linux wast.sitepen.com 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6xen #1 SMP Wed May 16 18:37:05 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I have several guests running, including FC6, Windows Server 2003, and CentOS5. I want to install a FC7 guest but when I run the following virt-install command the installation freezes: virt-install --nographics --name=skeggles --file=/dev/vg_guests/lv_skeggles --ram=512 --location=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/ --extra-args="ip=172.29.172.50 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=172.29.172.1 dns=192.168.2.203,192.168.2.204 ks=http://dev.robinbowes.com/kickstart/sitepen/skeggles-FC7.cfg" It boots into the FC7 install but only gets as far as: Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 938k Then it hangs. Any idea what''s up? R.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 02:37:29PM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote:> Hi, > > I have a FC6 machine: > > Linux wast.sitepen.com 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6xen #1 SMP Wed May 16 18:37:05 > EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I have several guests running, including FC6, Windows Server 2003, and > CentOS5. > > I want to install a FC7 guest but when I run the following virt-install > command the installation freezes: > > virt-install --nographics --name=skeggles > --file=/dev/vg_guests/lv_skeggles --ram=512 > --location=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/ > --extra-args="ip=172.29.172.50 netmask=255.255.255.0 > gateway=172.29.172.1 dns=192.168.2.203,192.168.2.204 > ks=http://dev.robinbowes.com/kickstart/sitepen/skeggles-FC7.cfg" > > It boots into the FC7 install but only gets as far as: > > Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 938k > > Then it hangs.It hasn''t hung - its merely sending console output somewhere you can''t see it. Basically its supposed to send it to both text console (xvc) and the grpahical console, but only sends it to the latter. Since you used --nographics, you thus see nothing. IIRC, you can add this arg to virt-install to workaround it: -x "console=xvc0" Dan -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:> On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 02:37:29PM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote:>> It boots into the FC7 install but only gets as far as: >> >> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 938k >> >> Then it hangs. > > It hasn''t hung - its merely sending console output somewhere you can''t > see it. Basically its supposed to send it to both text console (xvc) > and the grpahical console, but only sends it to the latter. Since you > used --nographics, you thus see nothing. > > IIRC, you can add this arg to virt-install to workaround it: > > -x "console=xvc0"Ah, OK. Thanks. I''ll give that a go. R.
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:> On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 02:37:29PM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote:>> It boots into the FC7 install but only gets as far as: >> >> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 938k >> >> Then it hangs. > > It hasn''t hung - its merely sending console output somewhere you can''t > see it. Basically its supposed to send it to both text console (xvc) > and the grpahical console, but only sends it to the latter. Since you > used --nographics, you thus see nothing. > > IIRC, you can add this arg to virt-install to workaround it: > > -x "console=xvc0"OK, I''m now trying the same install on a different FC6 box: Linux slippy.robinbowes.com 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6xen #1 SMP Wed May 16 19:19:04 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux i.e. this is i386 not x86_64 I''ve used this command to start the install: virt-install --nographics --name=test --file=/dev/vg_host/lv_test --ram=512 --location=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/ --extra-args="ip=192.168.1.110 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.1 dns=192.168.1.60 ks=http://dev.robinbowes.com/kickstart/misc/test-FC7.cfg console=xvc0" I now get this output: ========================================================[ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ] 2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen #1 --------------------------------------------------------- loader/206 just changed the state of lock: (&np->rx_lock){-...}, at: [<e115da6c>] network_open+0x28/0x83 [xennet] but this lock was taken by another, hard-irq-safe lock in the past: (&np->tx_lock){+...} ... plus a load of further memory information. Installation seems to continue, but then stops. The last output seems to be: eth0: no IPv6 routers present I don''t see anything in the logs. Any more ideas? R.