On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 13:36 -0800, Glen wrote:
> All -
> 
> I'm running OpenSuse 10.3 with all patches installed.  I have two 
> servers - both brand new Dell PowerEdge 2950s - one with two dual-core 
> 2.00 GHz CPUs, 4GB RAM, and one with two quad-core 3.00 GHz CPUs, 8GB 
> RAM.  The machines appear to run fine with no problems.  However, when I 
> boot into the Xen-PAE kernel, and launch the graphical VM-INSTALL 
> client, the entire server hangs during the installation of software onto 
> the VM.
> 
> I'm at runlevel 5, logged in to KDE, running the virtual machine install 
> client. 
> 
> I've tried a number of different boot parameters... here's my latest 
> attempt:
> 
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: xen###
> title XEN -- openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.13-0.3
>     root (hd0,0)
>     kernel /xen-pae-dbg.gz showopts noresume splash=verbose sync_console 
> apm=off acpi=off lapic
>     module /vmlinuz-2.6.22.13-0.3-xenpae 
> root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-36001c230d3caa8000ecdebd25cc0a365-part3 
> vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sda2 showopts noresume splash=verbose sync_console 
> apm=off acpi=off lapic
>     module /initrd-2.6.22.13-0.3-xenpae
> 
> The setup creates the disk, the SuSE installer launches in a VNC window 
> on my desktop, I can configure disks and choose software.
> 
> But when I actually get through the configuration, and the installer 
> starts to install SuSE on the virtual client's virtual disk, it gets 
> about 20% of the way through, and then the ENTIRE SERVER hangs.
> 
> No output is written to the console.  No boot.omsg, no dmesg, no xm 
> dmesg, nothing.
> 
> As this happens on two separate machines, I doubt that I'm experiencing 
> a hardware failure.
> 
> I've checked the archives, the web, without luck.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the direction of any useful help?
> 
> Thank you so much!
> 
> Glen
> 
> 
Does the same thing happen when you install from the command line using
the xen shell?  (The xen shell command line can be started by typing xm)

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---Bryen---

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