[Fedora-xen] f7 guest on f8t3

[John Summerfield]

John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> This is my command line, it's similar to one that worked for Debian etch 
> and ClarkConnect 4.2 (and Windows XP):
> 
> virt-install --name=Fedora7 --ram=384 --vcpus=2 
> --file=/var/lib/xen/images/Fedora7.img --file-size=4 --vnc --hvm 
> --cdrom=/net/ns/var/local/mirrors/linux/Fedora/7/Fedora/x86_64/iso/F-7-x86_64-DVD.iso 
>  --os-type=linux os-variant=fedora7
> 
> Windows is fine
> Debian's fine
> ClarkConnect's fine
> 
> f7 took ages loading ata_piix4 (actually it was a little further than 
> this, that's just want was on the install screen). Ages > half an hour 
> after which I went off to lunch.
> 
> I cam back and, to my pleasant surprise, it was at the "choose your 
> language" screen.

F7 for IA32 isn't going this well;-(
[root at potoroo ~]# \rm /var/lib/xen/images/Fedora7.img
[root at potoroo ~]# virt-install --name=Fedora7 --ram=384 --vcpus=2 
--file=/var/lib/xen/images/Fedora7.img --file-size=4 --vnc --hvm 
--location=http://fedora.demo.lan/linux/7/Fedora/i386/os/ 
--os-type=linux os-variant=fedora7


Starting install...
libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed:
Retrieving file fedora.cs 100% |=========================| 2.8 kB 
00:00
Retrieving file boot.iso. 100% |=========================| 7.7 MB 
00:19
libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed:
Creating storage file...  100% |=========================| 4.0 GB 
00:00
Creating domain...                                                 0 B 
00:00

I's been up over 17 hours.

There's a screen shot at http://58.6.192.22/ia32f1.png
It's not yet switching to other consoles, I have no more info,

Here's the output from "xm top"
xentop - 07:27:00   Xen 3.1.0-rc7-2950.fc8
2 domains: 1 running, 1 blocked, 0 paused, 0 crashed, 0 dying, 0 shutdown
Mem: 2071872k total, 1664364k used, 407508k free    CPUs: 2 @ 1862MHz
       NAME  STATE   CPU(sec) CPU(%)     MEM(k) MEM(%)  MAXMEM(k) 
MAXMEM(%) VCPUS NETS NETTX(k) NETRX(k) VBDS   VBD_OO   VBD_RD   VBD_WR SSID
   Domain-0 -----r      39667   13.5    1215488   58.7   no limit 
n/a     2    0        0        0    0        0        0        0    0
    Fedora7 --b---       3382    0.0     401280   19.4     409600 
19.8     2    1        0        0    2        0        0        0    0
VBD 5632 [16: 0]  OO:        0   RD:        0   WR:        0
VBD  768 [ 3: 0]  OO:        0   RD:        0   WR:        0

It doesn't seem to me to be using much disk I/O or CPU.



Here's the host software:

[root at potoroo ~]# rpm -qa '*xen*' virt\* ;uname -a
xen-libs-3.1.0-13.fc8
jaxen-1.1-1jpp.2.fc7
virt-manager-0.5.2-2.fc8
virt-viewer-0.0.2-2.fc8
xen-libs-3.1.0-13.fc8
xen-3.1.0-13.fc8
kernel-xen-2.6.21-2950.fc8
Linux potoroo.demo.lan 2.6.21-2950.fc8xen #1 SMP Tue Oct 23 12:23:33 EDT 
2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root at potoroo ~]#



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John

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