[opensuse-autoinstall] install hangs inside of virtual machine
Greetings, I'm trying to run an autoyast based installation of SLES11-SP3 inside of a KVM based virtual machine (host OS is Fedora19-x86_64, if that matters), and it is consistently hanging at: Sending dhcp request to eth0 It sounds quite similar to this bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799496 however, I'm not installing over NFS at all. I'm invoking the installation from local media, and pulling down all components via http. This is the isolinux 'append' entry that I'm using: textmode=1 initrd=sles113_64bit.img autoyast=http://172.20.232.152/distros/suse/os/SLES11-SP3/x86_64/autoyastcuda.xml install=http://172.20.232.152/distros/suse/os/SLES11-SP3/x86_64 Has anyone else run into anything like this? thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org
On Tue, Aug 06, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Greetings, I'm trying to run an autoyast based installation of SLES11-SP3 inside of a KVM based virtual machine (host OS is Fedora19-x86_64, if that matters), and it is consistently hanging at: Sending dhcp request to eth0
It sounds quite similar to this bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799496
however, I'm not installing over NFS at all. I'm invoking the installation from local media, and pulling down all components via http. This is the isolinux 'append' entry that I'm using:
textmode=1 initrd=sles113_64bit.img autoyast=http://172.20.232.152/distros/suse/os/SLES11-SP3/x86_64/autoyastcuda.xml install=http://172.20.232.152/distros/suse/os/SLES11-SP3/x86_64
The problem you are experiencing happens before yast gets started. It happens during setup of installation environment by linuxrc. If you use a http-URL for installation, linuxrc needs to set up the network to be able to access installation. Therefore it sends a dhcp request for eth0. Why this hangs, I cannot answer. Maybe your virtual machine is not set up for network connection to your DHCP server. Bye, Thomas Fehr -- Thomas Fehr, SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Tel: +49-911-74053-0, Fax: +49-911-74053-482, Email: fehr@suse.de GPG public key available. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Thomas Fehr
On Tue, Aug 06, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Greetings, I'm trying to run an autoyast based installation of SLES11-SP3 inside of a KVM based virtual machine (host OS is Fedora19-x86_64, if that matters), and it is consistently hanging at: Sending dhcp request to eth0
It sounds quite similar to this bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799496
however, I'm not installing over NFS at all. I'm invoking the installation from local media, and pulling down all components via http. This is the isolinux 'append' entry that I'm using:
textmode=1 initrd=sles113_64bit.img autoyast=http://172.20.232.152/distros/suse/os/SLES11-SP3/x86_64/autoyastcuda.xml install=http://172.20.232.152/distros/suse/os/SLES11-SP3/x86_64
The problem you are experiencing happens before yast gets started. It happens during setup of installation environment by linuxrc.
If you use a http-URL for installation, linuxrc needs to set up the network to be able to access installation. Therefore it sends a dhcp request for eth0. Why this hangs, I cannot answer. Maybe your virtual machine is not set up for network connection to your DHCP server.
I'm quite certain that the problem isn't an inability to connect to the DHCP server. I'm using the same virtual machine configuration for many different types of Linux distributions (and even Windows), and the only one that fails at all is SLES11-SP3. Even if I had some how misconfigured the VM to not allow DHCP traffic, I'd expect a sane failure message, not a complete & indefinite hang. Shouldn't the attempt to obtain a DHCP lease timeout at some point if that was the actual problem? That's certainly how I've seen all other OS's fail when there was no response from a DHCP server. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org
Then use for your SLES11SP3 VM a different network adapter ( I would start with the e1000 or pcnet ) and see if it works ....
Already tried that. I tried every possible network adapter, and the
results are always the same. SLES11-SP3 hangs when trying to send the
DHCP request. This looks very much like a bug in SLES11.
Has anyone actually successfully installed SLES11-SP3 inside of a VM?
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Hans-Joachim Ehlers
Then use for your SLES11SP3 VM a different network adapter ( I would start with the e1000 or pcnet ) and see if it works ....
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 10:16:46AM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Has anyone actually successfully installed SLES11-SP3 inside of a VM?
Tons, doing imaging work. Inside KVM and vmware, mostly from a SLES11 SP3 hypervisor for KVM. I know a counterpart at work doing installs inside a RHEL based KVM hypervisor as well as they're using a setup to do tests of all images we use at once for testing. Not sure which RHEL version his hypervisor host is though. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Sr. Staff IT Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org
Good morning, yesterday I installed a virtual machine with SLES11 SP3 iso-image with VMware ESXi 5.1.0 without any problems in the network setup. The installation use e1000 driver, everything works fine. Sorry ;-) -- Thomas Plaga / Juelich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) / eMail: th.plaga@fz-juelich.de
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mike Marion [mailto:mmarion@qualcomm.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. August 2013 20:33 An: Lonni J Friedman Cc: opensuse-autoinstall@opensuse.org Betreff: Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] install hangs inside of virtual machine
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 10:16:46AM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Has anyone actually successfully installed SLES11-SP3 inside of a VM?
Tons, doing imaging work. Inside KVM and vmware, mostly from a SLES11 SP3 hypervisor for KVM.
I know a counterpart at work doing installs inside a RHEL based KVM hypervisor as well as they're using a setup to do tests of all images we use at once for testing. Not sure which RHEL version his hypervisor host is though.
-- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Sr. Staff IT Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org
Hello Loni, the bug you referenced in bnc#799496 looks very similar in terms of console output, but was in the _net_nfs_mount procedure of linuxrc, hence affecting NFS mounts only. Personally, I never understood how this problem appeared in the first place, as the troublesome code had been working nicely for openSUSE < 12.3. This suggests that some other change in linuxrc or elsewhere caused the good code to go bad. Hence, similarly to NFS mounts suddenly hanging in linuxrc (for whatever reason), it may not be too far fetched to assume that some other part of linuxrc causes your problem. If you can reproduce your problem *with a real machine*, I would open a bugreport with Novell against LinuxRC. Best regards, Joschi Brauchle On 08/06/2013 07:38 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Greetings, I'm trying to run an autoyast based installation of SLES11-SP3 inside of a KVM based virtual machine (host OS is Fedora19-x86_64, if that matters), and it is consistently hanging at: Sending dhcp request to eth0
It sounds quite similar to this bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799496
however, I'm not installing over NFS at all. I'm invoking the installation from local media, and pulling down all components via http. This is the isolinux 'append' entry that I'm using:
textmode=1 initrd=sles113_64bit.img autoyast=http://172.20.232.152/distros/suse/os/SLES11-SP3/x86_64/autoyastcuda.xml install=http://172.20.232.152/distros/suse/os/SLES11-SP3/x86_64
Has anyone else run into anything like this?
thanks
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