[Fedora-xen] Newby Help
Walter Coole
WCoole at aperiogroup.com
Tue Apr 8 19:32:40 UTC 2008
My version of virt-install doesn't understand --nogfx, but I tried:
sudo virt-install -n hockey -r 512 -f /var/lib/xen/images/hockey.img -s 4 --nographics -x "linux text" -l http://192.168.1.117/mirror/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os
, which led to a partial success. Anaconda got well beyond the minstg2.img step (although I don't really know why this would work. It did give me this:
┌────────────────────────────┤ Error ├────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing │
│ repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has │
│ been correctly generated. Cannot open/read repomd.xml file │
│ for repository: anaconda-base-200610172015.x86_64 │
│ │
│ ┌───────┐ │
│ │ Abort │ │
│ └───────┘ │
│ │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
I don't really understand what it's looking for, since http://192.168.1.117/mirror/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml is there and looks like sensible XML to a casual glance. It doesn't refer to anything like "anaconda-base-200610172015.x86_64".
192.168.1.117/mirror has a copy of download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora, as I don't know of a better place to get a tree from. I'm running out of space and bandwidth, so it's not complete, but pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64 looks complete.
Walter
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Nielsen [mailto:mnielsen at redhat.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:01 PM
To: Walter Coole
Cc: barry.scott at onelan.co.uk; Markus Armbruster; fedora-xen at redhat.com
Subject: RE: [Fedora-xen] Newby Help
(resend to all + additional comment)
try the --nogfx option with virt-install, and/or use -x "linux text"
which should cause the install to proceed in a text mode. From the looks
of that message things are actually installing but showing in a
graphical console which you can't see (for whatever reason..)
Mark
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 11:44 -0700, Walter Coole wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it and Alt-F3 showed a message about
> dropping to a serial console due to lack of memory, so I tried it again
> with this command line:
>
> sudo virt-install -n hockey -r 512 -f /var/lib/xen/images/hockey.img -s
> 4 --vnc -l
> http://192.168.1.117/mirror/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/
> Password:
>
>
> Starting install...
> libvir: Xen error : Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByUUID
> Retrieving file fedora.cs 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB
> 00:00
> Retrieving file vmlinuz.. 100% |=========================| 1.8 MB
> 00:00
> Retrieving file initrd.im 100% |=========================| 5.6 MB
> 00:00
> libvir: Xen error : Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByName
> Creating storage file... 100% |=========================| 4.0 GB
> 00:00
> Creating domain... 0 B
> 00:00
>
> VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.2 for X - built Jul 18 2006 06:59:52
> Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
> See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
>
> Tue Apr 8 11:14:19 2008
> main: unable to resolve host by name: Success (0)
> Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect to
> the console to complete the installation process.
>
> and a dialog box with the same message:
>
> unable to resolve host by name: Success (0)
>
> popped up on my workstation. Despite that, Virtual Machine Manager was
> able to open it, so I see the Anaconda window. Most of the console
> windows are blank, but a screenshot of Alt-F3 is attached, in hopes
> someone can interpret it with more success than I've had. The serial
> console shows:
>
> IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
> TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
> TCP reno registered
> IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran at veritas.com>
> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
> audit(1207679422.076:1): initialized
> VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
> Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
> SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
> Initializing Cryptographic API
> ksign: Installing public key data
> Loading keyring
> - Added public key 4D36EEF71C3A3150
> - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
> io scheduler noop registered
> io scheduler anticipatory registered
> io scheduler deadline registered
> io scheduler cfq registered (default)
> pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
> rtc: IRQ 8 is not free.
> Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
> Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize
> Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
> Event-channel device installed.
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
> input: Xen Virtual Keyboard/Mouse as /class/input/input0
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> usbcore: registered new driver libusual
> usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
> usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
> drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
> PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
> i8042.c: No controller found.
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> md: bitmap version 4.39
> TCP bic registered
> Initializing IPsec netlink socket
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712
> XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
> XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vkbd/0
> XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vfb/0
> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 440k
>
> Looking at the screen shot, it appears that several transfers from the
> tree were successful, which makes it seem as though basic networking is
> working. Since the messaging for stage2.img is the same, it looks as
> though that was also successful and the hang up is in the next item.
> Not having seen it, I'm pretty vague on what it is or why it might fail.
> I didn't check Alt-F4, as that causes the window to go away (on Windows
> XP), is it likely to be interesting? If so, is there an alternate way
> to get at it?
>
> Continued thanks!
> Walter
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Coole
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 3:41 PM
> To: 'Markus Armbruster'
> Cc: Chris Lalancette; fedora-xen at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: [Fedora-xen] Newby Help
>
> The originating host (where I'm running virt-install) has SELinux in
> "Permissive" mode. The web server (192.168.1.117) had SELinux in
> "Secure" mode, so I changed it to "Permissive" mode. I don't think
> SELinux is started on the system being installed, but if someone knows
> how to set or confirm that, I'd be happy to be corrected. I'm not
> finicky about the path where the file lives, so I tried it with
> /var/lib/xen/images/hockey.img. The symptom is unchanged: stuck at
> minstg2.img.
>
> The revised command line is:
>
> sudo virt-install -n hockey -r 256 -f /var/lib/xen/images/hockey.img -s
> 4 --nographics --noautoconsole -l
> http://192.168.1.117/mirror/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/
>
> Thanks!
> Walter
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Armbruster [mailto:armbru at redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 12:58 AM
> To: Walter Coole
> Cc: Chris Lalancette; fedora-xen at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Newby Help
>
> "Walter Coole" <WCoole at aperiogroup.com> writes:
>
> > Thanks for the hint; sorry it took so long for me to try several
> > different approaches.
> >
> > I hadn't tried virt-install; I had assumed that virt-manager's Create
> > Wizard did the equivalent job.
>
> Uh, I must have somehow missed that you used virt-manager, not
> virt-install. Telling us exactly how you interact with either is
> fine. Telling us how you run virt-install is easier, though.
>
> > Trying virt-install, this is what my session looked like:
> >
> > sudo virt-install -n hockey -r 256 -f /xen/fedora/hockey.img -s 4
> > --nographics --noautoconsole -l
> > http://192.168.1.117/mirror/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/
> > Password:
>
> This is an unusual image location. Is SELinux enabled? Does
> /var/lib/xen/images/hockey.img work?
>
> [...]
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