[Fedora-xen] Installing FC9 guest on Centos 5 fails installing OO writer2latex

[Kenneth Tanzer]

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).
>
>     Michael Young
>
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