Sean, Please see response in line.
> I am not seeing any splash screen, I see the Seabios screens and then the PIX > boot line, then GRUB loading stage2.. and the KVM process eats 100% of one > of the cores for about 5 minutes, then the management server tries to > restart. I am using CS 4.0.2 > > 0) acton-systemvm-02062012.qcow2.bz2 This image has been used countless times by many folks, perhaps something is unique in your environment that could cause this problem? > 1) I will try this, I ran qemu-img check on all the image files and they all > are > fine (I did a virsh dumpxml s-1-vm and looked at the disk it was referencing), > I have also reinstalled SystemVM as per installation directions. > 2) I cannot even get it to let me get to a point where it will let me edit > grub > boot parameters. > 3) Like I said above the System VM doesn't even show me a splash screen. You don't need grub to function in this case, since you are booting off linux rescue cd to repair grub. > > I have reinstalled management and system templates and am trying it again. > I will also try to run the system VM's by command line and see if it works > from command line. I had everything working with basic networking, as soon > as I switch it over to advance networking (using VLAN) is when this started > happening. The issue between switching from basic to advanced and router VM makes no sense. The only thing that would change is the metadata details vm will use to boot with, but that comes after GRUB. > > v/r > Sean > > > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Musayev, Ilya <imusa...@webmd.net> > wrote: > > > Sean, > > > > Specifically what versions of SVM are you running? Do you see a splash > > screen and when you press enter or wait for time out - for this issue > > to occur? > > > > 0) if splash screen is seen and you can make changes to boot linux, > > remove the "quiet" flag from initrd line to see if you can get more > > meaningful errors > > > > 1) I would suggest to change the storage controllers to see if it > > makes any difference. > > > > 2) I've seen in past " GRUB loading stage2" error would occur when > > grub.conf reference initrd or kernel version that no longer exists > > (filename mismatch). Go into the edit mode, remove the version in > > front of initrd and vmlinuz and try to use auto-completion (TAB-TAB) > > to complete the filename and boot again. > > > > 3) If nothing helps, I would have tried to boot it into a single user > > mode with linux rescue disk and reinstall grub - just to confirm if > > its grub related or something else. > > > > Let me know how it goes, > > > > Regards > > ilya > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Sean Truman [mailto:stru...@gmail.com] > > > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 12:16 PM > > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > > > Subject: System VM's hanging > > > > > > All, > > > > > > My system VM's are hanging at GRUB loading stage2.. using KVM as > > > hypervisor any idea why this is happening? > > > > > > v/r > > > Sean > > > >
