1:42 p.m.
I've tried three times to install Fedora Core 9 as a PV guest on a
Centos 5 host. Every time, it gets most of the way through the install,
and then hangs on installing openoffice.org-writer2latex-0.5-2.fc9.i386.
The first two attempts were with the official FC9 DVD, and for the third
I tried the Unity respin from 7/18/08.
Does anyone know what the problem could be? Alternatively, what useful
information could I provide to this list? Thanks.
Ken
1:48 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Kenneth Tanzer <ktanzer(a)desc.org> wrote:
I've tried three times to install Fedora Core 9 as a PV guest on
a Centos 5
host. Every time, it gets most of the way through the install, and then
hangs on installing openoffice.org-writer2latex-0.5-2.fc9.i386.
The first two attempts were with the official FC9 DVD, and for the third I
tried the Unity respin from 7/18/08.
Does anyone know what the problem could be? Alternatively, what useful
information could I provide to this list? Thanks.
During the install, switch over to the console (Ctrl+)Alt+F1, (Ctrl+)Alt+F2 ...
Look for errors, also you can use that to that console, check free space etc.
Hope that helps,
Todd
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1:50 p.m.
Hi,
i tried same scenario as you several times without success. Unfortunately it
stops because of kernel panic.
XEN Kernel on Fedora 9 is newer and has some features which dom0 - CentOs
with lustiest xen kernel does not understand. :(
David
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Todd Deshane <deshantm(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Kenneth Tanzer
<ktanzer(a)desc.org> wrote:
> I've tried three times to install Fedora Core 9 as a PV guest on a Centos
5
> host. Every time, it gets most of the way through the install, and then
> hangs on installing openoffice.org-writer2latex-0.5-2.fc9.i386.
>
> The first two attempts were with the official FC9 DVD, and for the third
I
> tried the Unity respin from 7/18/08.
>
> Does anyone know what the problem could be? Alternatively, what useful
> information could I provide to this list? Thanks.
>
During the install, switch over to the console (Ctrl+)Alt+F1, (Ctrl+)Alt+F2
...
Look for errors, also you can use that to that console, check free space
etc.
Hope that helps,
Todd
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1:57 p.m.
Thanks. Does that mean FC9 on Centos just can't work, at least for now?
The VM guest is currently stuck, and won't shut down, even with a
destroy. I get the message below. Is there any way to get rid of it
short of rebooting?
Ken
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 485, in
shutdown_domain
vm.shutdown()
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 375, in
shutdown
self.vm.shutdown()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 389, in shutdown
if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainShutdown() failed',
dom=self)
libvirtError: virDomainShutdown() failed internal error domain
information incomplete, missing name
David Hláčik wrote:
Hi,
i tried same scenario as you several times without success. Unfortunately it
stops because of kernel panic.
XEN Kernel on Fedora 9 is newer and has some features which dom0 - CentOs
with lustiest xen kernel does not understand. :(
David
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Todd Deshane <deshantm(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Kenneth Tanzer <ktanzer(a)desc.org> wrote:
>
>> I've tried three times to install Fedora Core 9 as a PV guest on a Centos
>>
> 5
>
>> host. Every time, it gets most of the way through the install, and then
>> hangs on installing openoffice.org-writer2latex-0.5-2.fc9.i386.
>>
>> The first two attempts were with the official FC9 DVD, and for the third
>>
> I
>
>> tried the Unity respin from 7/18/08.
>>
>> Does anyone know what the problem could be? Alternatively, what useful
>> information could I provide to this list? Thanks.
>>
>>
> During the install, switch over to the console (Ctrl+)Alt+F1, (Ctrl+)Alt+F2
> ...
>
> Look for errors, also you can use that to that console, check free space
> etc.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Todd
>
>
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7:44 p.m.
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 11:57 -0700, Kenneth Tanzer wrote:
The VM guest is currently stuck, and won't shut down, even with a
destroy. I get the message below. Is there any way to get rid of it
short of rebooting?
As far as removing the domU. You might try 'xm destroy' and/or 'xm
delete' on the cmd line and then restart xend if 'virsh list --all' or
the virt-manager GUI is not showing what you would expect.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2008-June/msg00059.html
2:50 a.m.
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 20:50 +0200, David Hláčik wrote:
i tried same scenario as you several times without success.
Unfortunately it stops because of kernel panic.
XEN Kernel on Fedora 9 is newer and has some features which dom0 -
CentOs with lustiest xen kernel does not understand. :(
You should file a bug if you see anything like this. We certainly expect
RHEL5/CentOS Xen to be able to run pv_ops kernels.
Cheers,
Mark.
6:44 p.m.
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:42:40 -0700
Kenneth Tanzer <ktanzer(a)desc.org> wrote:
I've tried three times to install Fedora Core 9 as a PV guest on
a
Centos 5 host. Every time, it gets most of the way through the install,
and then hangs on installing openoffice.org-writer2latex-0.5-2.fc9.i386.
I had enormous problems with lots of installs using an older Xen
and file: devices for virtual disks. I would constantly see the sort
of stuff you describe with the VM going funny in the head during
heavy I/O (like installing openoffice - that was a favorite place for
it to die).
I switched the host machine to debian etch, and built what was
at the time the latest mercurial version of 3.2.1 from source, booting
the host with the dom0 kernel built during the Xen build from
scratch.
I then switched all my virtual disks to tap:aio: instead of file:
and since those changes, everything has been working great. No
install problems, no mysterious VM crashes when cron kicks off
makewhatis, etc.
10:59 a.m.
Thanks to all who offered responses. I tried this again, using an LVM
volume instead of a file-backed disk. It still hangs again at the exact
same spot. Again, the mouse is not responsive, nor does it respond to
ctrl-alt-f1, f2, etc. The VM manager shows it is still running, and
using about 12.5% of my CPU (although it fluctuates a bit). The machine
also still responds to pings.
Any other suggestions, either for fixing or useful troubleshooting/error
reporting, or should I just give this up as a lost cause? Thanks in
advance.
Ken
Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:42:40 -0700
Kenneth Tanzer <ktanzer(a)desc.org> wrote:
> I've tried three times to install Fedora Core 9 as a PV guest on a
> Centos 5 host. Every time, it gets most of the way through the install,
> and then hangs on installing openoffice.org-writer2latex-0.5-2.fc9.i386.
>
I had enormous problems with lots of installs using an older Xen
and file: devices for virtual disks. I would constantly see the sort
of stuff you describe with the VM going funny in the head during
heavy I/O (like installing openoffice - that was a favorite place for
it to die).
I switched the host machine to debian etch, and built what was
at the time the latest mercurial version of 3.2.1 from source, booting
the host with the dom0 kernel built during the Xen build from
scratch.
I then switched all my virtual disks to tap:aio: instead of file:
and since those changes, everything has been working great. No
install problems, no mysterious VM crashes when cron kicks off
makewhatis, etc.
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11:22 a.m.
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Kenneth Tanzer wrote:
Thanks to all who offered responses. I tried this again, using an
LVM volume
instead of a file-backed disk. It still hangs again at the exact same spot.
Again, the mouse is not responsive, nor does it respond to ctrl-alt-f1, f2,
etc. The VM manager shows it is still running, and using about 12.5% of my
CPU (although it fluctuates a bit). The machine also still responds to
pings.
Why don't you install it without the Office packages an add them back in
post-install?
As to the problems you are seeing, how much memory does your VM
machine have? I remember running into problems doing an upgrade on a low
memory system, I think via http, where it ended up continually swapping,
having downloaded the big openoffice.org-core package to ramdisk and then
was trying to install it (this was non-xen and a few Fedoras ago).
Incidentally I installed Fedora 9 on Centos 5 earlier today so it is
certainly possible (unlike Fedora 10 on Centos 5).
Michael Young
6:09 p.m.
The host machine has 12GB of RAM. I tried increasing the guest to 1G/2G
(min/max), but that didn't help. By skipping the OO packages, though, I
was able to get FC9 installed and running. (Thank you!)
On a related issue, several times I've had xen problems that I could
only fix by rebooting the (host) machine. Particularly when these guest
machines have gone bad, the VM manager, although not actually frozen, is
unable to do anything useful. If I disconnect from the host, it is
unable to reconnect. In some cases, xm was still useful, although in at
least one case I repeatedly got back:
Error: Device 0 not connected
For all these problems, I tried restarting libvirtd, xend and
xendomains, to no effect. Is there anything else that can be done to
solve these xen problems, short of rebooting?
Thanks.
Ken
M A Young wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Kenneth Tanzer wrote:
> Thanks to all who offered responses. I tried this again, using an
> LVM volume instead of a file-backed disk. It still hangs again at
> the exact same spot. Again, the mouse is not responsive, nor does it
> respond to ctrl-alt-f1, f2, etc. The VM manager shows it is still
> running, and using about 12.5% of my CPU (although it fluctuates a
> bit). The machine also still responds to pings.
Why don't you install it without the Office packages an add them back
in post-install?
As to the problems you are seeing, how much memory does your VM
machine have? I remember running into problems doing an upgrade on a
low memory system, I think via http, where it ended up continually
swapping, having downloaded the big openoffice.org-core package to
ramdisk and then was trying to install it (this was non-xen and a few
Fedoras ago).
Incidentally I installed Fedora 9 on Centos 5 earlier today so it is
certainly possible (unlike Fedora 10 on Centos 5).
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4:16 a.m.
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Kenneth Tanzer wrote:
The host machine has 12GB of RAM. I tried increasing the guest to
1G/2G
(min/max), but that didn't help. By skipping the OO packages, though, I was
able to get FC9 installed and running. (Thank you!)
If leaving out the OO packages fixes it then it does look like you are
running into some sort of low-memory situation, though 1Gb should be more
than enough (I was seeing the problems I was referring to with something
like 256Mb). The only other explanation I can think of is that you are
installing without any swap space allocated, since that would increase the
pressure on whatever memory you did have.
Michael Young
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