Re: OSSTest -- debian-hvm-install, how to see the progress of guest auto installation

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 08:47 +0000, Hu, Robert wrote:
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ian Campbell [mailto:ian.campbell@citrix.com]
> > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 4:46 PM
> > To: Hu, Robert; ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com; wei.liu2@citrix.com
> > Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
> > Subject: Re: OSSTest -- debian-hvm-install, how to see the progress of 
> > guest
> > auto installation
> > 
> > On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 08:29 +0000, Hu, Robert wrote:
> > 
> > Please can you not top post.
> > 
> > > Further more, now I see debian-hvm guest boots up. But it hangs at
> > > 'Starting MTA'.
> > > Is MTA necessary?
> > 
> > Not really, but it's part of the standard Debian installation.
> > 
> > If it is hanging then that usually indicates something is wrong with
> > networking, either connectivity or DNS etc. Removing the MTA would 
> > simply
> > be working around that underlying issue
> Do you know how to disable it? seems it is not a service?

I don't know how to turn off the MTA during install, and like I said that
is not the approach you should be taking to resolve this issue. Instead you
should fix whatever it is that is broken about the network in your test
case.

> > 
> > IOW patches to remove the MTA would likely not be accepted.
> I see. Thanks for remind.
> > 
> > Ian.