virt-install hangs for fc6,7

[john maclean]

Hey guys, 

First post and apologies if this has been up OT before. virt-install
fails to create a domU for FC6/7. Distro of node is BLAG, an FC
derivative. Just jump to the end to the end of the boot up message to
see where the domU hangs. /var/log/xen/xend.log indicate no warnings or
explanations why this domain has failed to be "born".

Commands used:- 

 /usr/sbin/virt-install --name fx6foo  \
--paravirt \ 
--ram 256 \ 
--nographics \
--file-size 10 \
--file /dev/zulu_images/fx6foo \
--location
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386...

or

[root@zulu ~]# virt-install --paravirt \
>  --name fx7template \
>  --ram 256 \
>  --nographics \
>  --file-size 10 \
>  --file /dev/zulu_images/fx7template \
>  --location
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386...

Typical output:-
Starting install...
libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed:
Retrieving file Fedora...                                       434 kB
00:02
Retrieving file vmlinuz.. 100% |=========================| 2.1 MB
00:09
Retrieving file initrd.im 100% |=========================| 5.4 MB
00:26
libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed:
Creating domain...                                                 0 B
00:01
Linux version 2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen
(kojibuilder(a)xenbuilder4.fedora.phx.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2
20070502 (Red H
at 4.1.2-12)) #1 SMP Tue May 22 08:53:03 EDT 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
sanitize start
sanitize bail 0
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 0000000010800000 end:
0000000010800000 type: 1
 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000010800000 (usable)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
264MB LOWMEM available.
Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA             0 ->    67584
  Normal      67584 ->    67584
  HighMem     67584 ->    67584
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0:        0 ->    67584
ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 67056
Kernel command line:
method=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedo...
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c135f000 soft=c133f000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Xen reported: 2806.356 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Lock dependency validator: Copyright (c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar
... MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES:    8
... MAX_LOCK_DEPTH:          30
... MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS:        2048
... CLASSHASH_SIZE:           1024
... MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES:     8192
... MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS:      16384
... CHAINHASH_SIZE:          8192
 memory used by lock dependency info: 1064 kB
 per task-struct memory footprint: 1200 bytes
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Software IO TLB disabled
vmalloc area: d1000000-f4ffe000, maxmem 2d7fe000
Memory: 245120k/270336k available (2030k kernel code, 16724k reserved,
1079k data, 180k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
    fixmap  : 0xf5315000 - 0xf57fe000   (5028 kB)
    pkmap   : 0xf5000000 - 0xf5200000   (2048 kB)
    vmalloc : 0xd1000000 - 0xf4ffe000   ( 575 MB)
    lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xd0800000   ( 264 MB)
      .init : 0xc130e000 - 0xc133b000   ( 180 kB)
      .data : 0xc11fb8b9 - 0xc1309714   (1079 kB)
      .text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc11fb8b9   (2030 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...
Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 7023.08 BogoMIPS
(lpj=14046165)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Initializing.
SELinux:  Starting in permissive mode
selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
Brought up 1 CPUs
Grant table initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 16
Brought up 1 CPUs
PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found
PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: System does not support PCI
PCI: System does not support PCI
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192)
TCP reno registered
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 7264k freedIA-32 Microcode Update Driver:
v1.14-xen <tigran(a)veritas.com&gt;
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1196625149.792:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux:  Registering netfilter hooks
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
rtc: IRQ 8 is not free.
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
Event-channel device installed.
usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
i8042.c: No controller found.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
TCP bic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 762k


# Everything seems to hang from here. Made a few cups of
coffee/cigarettes to see if it was just the box being slow....

# detached and listed domains...

# detaching from console... 
Domain installation still in progress.  You can reconnect to
        the console to complete the installation process.
        [root@zulu ~]# xm list
Name                                      ID   Mem VCPUs      State
Time(s)
Domain-0                                   0  1000     2     r-----
1072.2
cx5foo                                         256     1
24.7
cx5template                                    256     1
0.0
cxmon                                          256     1
24.7
fx6foo                                         256     1
0.0
fx7template                               13   256     1     -b----
1.7
fxfoo                                          256     1
0.0
zcx1dump                                       256     1
0.0


/var/log/xen/xend.log is not reporting any problems. Clues? Would be
nice to be able diagnose this one.


-- 
Regards,

John Maclean
Msc (DIC)
+ 44 7739 1717 531

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:21:04AM +0000, John Maclean wrote:
>  Hey guys, 
>  
>  First post and apologies if this has been up OT before. virt-install
>  fails to create a domU for FC6/7. Distro of node is BLAG, an FC
>  derivative. Just jump to the end to the end of the boot up message to
>  see where the domU hangs. /var/log/xen/xend.log indicate no warnings or
>  explanations why this domain has failed to be "born". 
This is a bug in the F7 install kernel. When running in nographics mode
it still sends boot output to the graphical console instead o the text
console.

Add  '--append console=xvc0' to the virt-install args when doing a nographics
install of Fedora 7.   FC6/F8 get the text mode  stuff right - only F7 is
broken in this respect.

>  
>  Commands used:- 
>  
>   /usr/sbin/virt-install --name fx6foo  \
>  --paravirt \ 
>  --ram 256 \ 
>  --nographics \
>  --file-size 10 \
>  --file /dev/zulu_images/fx6foo \
>  --location
>  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386... 
Your VM name is FC6, but you're still pointing at a F7 repo here...

>  
>  or
>  
>  [root@zulu ~]# virt-install --paravirt \
>  > --name fx7template \
>  > --ram 256 \
>  > --nographics \
>  > --file-size 10 \
>  > --file /dev/zulu_images/fx7template \
>  > --location
>  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386...
>  
>  Typical output:- 

Dan.
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[Aleksander Adamowski]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>  This is a bug in the F7 install kernel. When running in nographics
> mode
>  it still sends boot output to the graphical console instead o the text
>  console.
>
>  Add  '--append console=xvc0' to the virt-install args when doing a nographics
>  install of Fedora 7.   FC6/F8 get the text mode  stuff right - only F7 is
>  broken in this respect.
>     
Couldn't find a bug in Red Hat Bugzilla for this - hasn't this bug been 
reported yet? I experienced the problem too on Fedora Core 7 on x86_64.

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[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 03:56:37PM +0100, Aleksander Adamowski wrote:
>  Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>  >This is a bug in the F7 install kernel. When running in nographics mode
>  >it still sends boot output to the graphical console instead o the text
>  >console.
>  >
>  >Add  '--append console=xvc0' to the virt-install args when doing a 
>  >nographics
>  >install of Fedora 7.   FC6/F8 get the text mode  stuff right - only F7 is
>  >broken in this respect.
>  >  
>  
>  Couldn't find a bug in Red Hat Bugzilla for this - hasn't this bug been 
>  reported yet? I experienced the problem too on Fedora Core 7 on x86_64. 
There no point filing a BZ. It is impossible to fix it, since the problem
is in the images/xen/vmlinuz from the master install tree. We never change
the install kernels post-release so there's no way to fix it in F7. The
only option is to append that arg, or use F8 instead.


Dan.
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[Aleksander Adamowski]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>  Add  '--append console=xvc0' to the virt-install args when
> doing a nographics
>  install of Fedora 7.  
"virt-install: error: no such option: --append"

You probably meant adding '-x console=xvc0'.

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    Aleksander Adamowski
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	http://olo.org.pl

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