F18 beta experience under VM

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/03/2012 04:02 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 12/03/2012 03:19 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 01:10 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>>>> Getting to the first anaconda UI screen took a good 1-2 minutes. I 
>>>> wasn't sure if the VM had locked up as I had no indication of work being 
>>>> done. I can see people being frustrated with the wait and rebooting a 
>>>> few times and then posting on @test or @users that F18 won't install.
>> That's not normal, it should only take a few seconds after dracut
>> concludes (during which you can see that Stuff is Happening). Did you
>> file a bug?
>>
> I just tried this with a Vbox VM.
>
> After hitting "return" on the initial page the screen when white for about 15 seconds.  Then some lines were printed to the screen.  The last one informing that /dev/sr0 had been mounted read-only.  It then sat there for another 5 minutes before the Welcome screen appeared with the language selection dialog displayed.  During the 5 minutes the activity indicator remained on for the DVD.
>
> I just filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882828 with the description above since I don't have a clue at the moment how to gather additional information.
>

Never mind.....

My BZ is a dup of

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874486


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