From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: OSSTest -- debian-hvm-install, how to see the progress of guest auto installation Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 11:33:46 +0100 Message-ID: <1438684426.31129.88.camel@citrix.com> References: <9E79D1C9A97CFD4097BCE431828FDD31D4AC2D@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> <1438329207.30740.9.camel@citrix.com> <9E79D1C9A97CFD4097BCE431828FDD31D4AECC@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> <1438332335.30740.21.camel@citrix.com> <9E79D1C9A97CFD4097BCE431828FDD31D4B08D@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> <1438333120.30740.26.camel@citrix.com> <9E79D1C9A97CFD4097BCE431828FDD31D5DFFD@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9E79D1C9A97CFD4097BCE431828FDD31D5DFFD@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: "Hu, Robert" , "ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com" , "wei.liu2@citrix.com" Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 10:30 +0000, Hu, Robert wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ian Campbell [mailto:ian.campbell@citrix.com] > > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 4:59 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 08:47 +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. > I checked my network environment settings, all common settings are set > correctly (dns, routes, gateway, ntp, etc.). I don't see any network > configuration > shall blocking MTA start up, unless it has some special requirements. Best check the logs in the guest to see why it is blocking then. Ian.