[Bug 1663263] Re: lshw run on Hyper-V VM hangs system

2017-02-16 Thread Stephen Barrie
On further investigation this issue appears to be specific to SCSI DVD drives. Hyper-V uses SCSI drives by default in Generation 2 VMs whereas VMware always uses IDE for the DVD drive, so the problem may be the SCSI driver rather than something that is specific to Hyper-V. -- You received this

[Bug 1663263] Re: lshw run on Hyper-V VM hangs system

2017-02-16 Thread Stephen Barrie
I tried an upstream kernel (4.4.48-040448-generic #201702090334). This is still doing the same thing. I have seen the messages below logged relating to the DVD drive when lshw is run. If I remove the DVD drive from the VM hardware the issue goes away. Feb 16 11:59:10 ubuntu16-test kernel: [

[Bug 1663263] Re: lshw run on Hyper-V VM hangs system

2017-02-09 Thread Stephen Barrie
This reporting process doesn't work from a CLI only machine. The text- based browser does not cope with the authorisation steps used to send the info to the site and sits with "Waiting to hear from Launchpad about your decision.." when I quit the browser. Is there a way to get this information to

[Bug 1663263] [NEW] lshw run on Hyper-V VM hangs system

2017-02-09 Thread Stephen Barrie
Public bug reported: When running lshw the VM sits scanning SCSI for a full minute. At the same time CPUs show 100% usage. This appears to happen on all 4.4 kernel versions running as virtual machines on Hyper-V even with the latest integration services. This did not happen on earlier kernel