OS installation report

OS installation report

[( अमेय पाळंदे ) Ameya Palande]

Hi,

I tried installing following OSs using kvm release 9 and 10.
Note : I used -no-acpi -m 256 for qemu

1. opensuse 10.2
kvm10 - for starting installation one has to press shift key to avoid graphical
             boot screen. Afterwards Graphical installation starts
without any problem.
kvm9  - for starting installation shift key should be pressed.
           It hangs while probing for hard disks and formatting hard disk :(

2. debian 3.14r4
kvm10 - installation proceeds till partitioning step and afterwords hangs :(
            But already installed system using kvm9 boots and works properly.
kvm9  - installation works.

3. netbsd 3.1
kvm10 - installation hangs :(
            Already installed system with kvm9 doesn't boot, dmesg is full with
            "not present" messages.
kvm9  - installation works.


4. openbsd 4
kvm10 - installation hangs at rootdev detection stage :(
kvm9  - installation works.

5. freebsd 6.1
kvm10 - installation hangs at partitioning commit state :(
kvm9  - installation hangs at initial stage :(

I hope this report is helpful, and we can get overall picture of where we are.

Regards,
Ameya.

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Re: OS installation report

[Avi Kivity]

( अमेय पाळंदे ) Ameya Palande wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried installing following OSs using kvm release 9 and 10.
> Note : I used -no-acpi -m 256 for qemu
>
> 1. opensuse 10.2
> kvm10 - for starting installation one has to press shift key to avoid graphical
>              boot screen. Afterwards Graphical installation starts
> without any problem.
> kvm9  - for starting installation shift key should be pressed.
>            It hangs while probing for hard disks and formatting hard disk :(
>
> 2. debian 3.14r4
> kvm10 - installation proceeds till partitioning step and afterwords hangs :(
>             But already installed system using kvm9 boots and works properly.
> kvm9  - installation works.
>
> 3. netbsd 3.1
> kvm10 - installation hangs :(
>             Already installed system with kvm9 doesn't boot, dmesg is full with
>             "not present" messages.
> kvm9  - installation works.
>
>
> 4. openbsd 4
> kvm10 - installation hangs at rootdev detection stage :(
> kvm9  - installation works.
>
> 5. freebsd 6.1
> kvm10 - installation hangs at partitioning commit state :(
> kvm9  - installation hangs at initial stage :(
>
> I hope this report is helpful, and we can get overall picture of where we are.
>   

Certainly it's useful.  It would be even more useful if I got the site 
wiki'ed so people could update it as things progress (or, as it appears, 
regress).

Looks like the mmu, while improving performance, is much less stable 
than the previous implementation.

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Re: OS installation report

[Avi Kivity]

( अमेय पाळंदे ) Ameya Palande wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried installing following OSs using kvm release 9 and 10.
> Note : I used -no-acpi -m 256 for qemu
>
> 1. opensuse 10.2
> kvm10 - for starting installation one has to press shift key to avoid graphical
>              boot screen. Afterwards Graphical installation starts
> without any problem.
> kvm9  - for starting installation shift key should be pressed.
>            It hangs while probing for hard disks and formatting hard disk :(
>
> 2. debian 3.14r4
> kvm10 - installation proceeds till partitioning step and afterwords hangs :(
>             But already installed system using kvm9 boots and works properly.
> kvm9  - installation works.
>
> 3. netbsd 3.1
> kvm10 - installation hangs :(
>             Already installed system with kvm9 doesn't boot, dmesg is full with
>             "not present" messages.
> kvm9  - installation works.
>
>
> 4. openbsd 4
> kvm10 - installation hangs at rootdev detection stage :(
> kvm9  - installation works.
>
> 5. freebsd 6.1
> kvm10 - installation hangs at partitioning commit state :(
> kvm9  - installation hangs at initial stage :(
>
> I hope this report is helpful, and we can get overall picture of where we are.
>
>   

I fixed a couple of bugs which could well be the root cause of these 
reports.  Please retest with kvm trunk (or kvm-4270 from 
http://people.qumranet.com/avi if you don't wish to use subversion).

One of the fixes is to the x86 instruction emulator.  A symptom of a 
problem there is that kvm_stat reports a large and increasing number of 
pf_guest, but pf_fixed does not increase at all.



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Re: OS installation report

[Gildas]

> I fixed a couple of bugs which could well be the root cause of these
> reports.  Please retest with kvm trunk (or kvm-4270 from
> http://people.qumranet.com/avi if you don't wish to use subversion).

The server is non responsive as far as I can tell

Cheers
Gildas

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Re: OS installation report

[Avi Kivity]

Gildas wrote:
>> I fixed a couple of bugs which could well be the root cause of these
>> reports.  Please retest with kvm trunk (or kvm-4270 from
>> http://people.qumranet.com/avi if you don't wish to use subversion).
>
> The server is non responsive as far as I can tell
>

Our adsl connection had a temporary problem.


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