[Users] On oVirt 3.1, Fedora 16 and 17 hang at boot

[Jason Brooks]

On 06/21/2012 08:41 AM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
> On 06/21/2012 11:37 AM, Jason Brooks wrote:
>> On 06/20/2012 11:18 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>> On 06/21/2012 06:35 AM, Bing Bu Cao wrote:
>>>> Hi,everyone
>>>>
>>>> I have also met this problem recently,but I was just using vdsm to
>>>> create a vm and boot it to install FC16/17 instead of using
>>>> ovirt-engine.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe it is a bug or problem of vdsm.
>>>> I also met one problem:
>>>> After created a vm,after a while,trying to get info or shutdown the
>>>> vm,the vm will be not responding.
>>>>
>>>> I have no idea whether the two problems are relative.
>>>>
>>>> On 06/21/2012 12:38 AM, Jason Brooks wrote:
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm testing oVirt 3.1 with a few different VM types, and I'm
>>>>> experiencing boot issues with Fedora 16 and 17, 64bit. F17 hangs while
>>>>> booting from the F17 install DVD. F16 installs normally (minimal
>>>>> install), but hangs during the initial boot after installation. The
>>>>> F16
>>>>> VM will boot to rescue mode, however.
>>>>>
>>>>> The VM appears to get through the full boot process, but then the CPU
>>>>> usage goes to 99 or 100% and the VM won't respond. I've tried with
>>>>> spice
>>>>> and vnc consoles, with and without USB enabled. I've let it sit for
>>>>> quite a while, and the VM CPU usage stays pegged, and the VMs remain
>>>>> unresponsive.
>>>>>
>>>>> CentOS 6.2 and Ubuntu 12.04 VMs, both 64bit, work normally on my oVirt
>>>>> 3.1 setup. Any idea what might be causing the issue, or how I might go
>>>>> about debugging it?
>>> did you try ide disk instead of virtio? a VM without a nic?
>> I just tried booting from the F17 installer with each of these cases:
>> using an ide disk, using no disk, using e1000 nic, rtl8139 nic, no nic.
>> I've also tried with both preallocated and thin provisioned disks. All
>> the same: the F17 install dvd hangs at boot.
> Isn't there a bug regarding san link causing issues with read-only medium?

That's right -- I've encountered that issue, too, but there's a fix for it.

This is a different issue, other distros are installing normally for me.

> 
> Thanks
> Robert
>>
>> The same F17 dvd image, when accessed from the same nfs share via
>> virt-manager on my F17 notebook, works as expected.
>>
>> The F16 dvd image boots at least, as does the boot.fedoraproject.org
>> image, though Fedora systems installed with either of those do not boot.
>>
>> Maybe I'll try building a new vdsm to test.
>>
>> Jason
>>
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