Greetings-
I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or qla2xx-firmware RPMs. At this point, the installation hangs, and never completes. I'm unable to see what is going on 'under the hood' on another TTY as the console does not appear to be accepting my CTL-ALT-Fx commands either.
I have also tried installing using the full bin DVD1, but the initial installation errors out immediately noting the yum package cannot be read from source disk/etc. And yes, I have checked the MD5s on all downloaded ISOs.
I can readily duplicate this. Any thoughts or pointers on the cause and/or solution?
Thanks!
--Tim
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Greetings-
I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM. Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of note.
--Tim
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On 05/16/2012 12:29 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:
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Greetings-
I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM. Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of note.
--Tim _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
How much memory did you give to the VM? selinux-policy rpm within a update takes a lot of memory.
Daniel J Walsh writes:
On 05/16/2012 12:29 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:
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Greetings-
I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM. Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of note.
--Tim _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
How much memory did you give to the VM? selinux-policy rpm within a update takes a lot of memory.
Absolutely. I found that it will not work well or at all with less than 512MB of RAM. If less is wanted, it can be reduced afterwards, but that's the minimum needed for installation.
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On 05/17/2012 12:01 PM, Lars Hecking wrote:
Daniel J Walsh writes:
On 05/16/2012 12:29 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:
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Greetings-
I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM. Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of note.
--Tim _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
How much memory did you give to the VM? selinux-policy rpm within a update takes a lot of memory.
Absolutely. I found that it will not work well or at all with less than 512MB of RAM. If less is wanted, it can be reduced afterwards, but that's the minimum needed for installation.
_______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Yes installing with less then 512 would be a problem. It might be a little better in RHEL7.
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----- Original Message -----
Greetings-
I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM. Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of note.
Of interesting note, it now no longer hangs on selinux-policy-targeted, but every time now on qla2xxx-firmware which is the last package. I've let it sit overnight, same results.
Even though I'd already verified MD5 of the ISO, I redownloaded from a different mirror, same results. I've tried disabling ACPI on the VM, giving less RAM, more RAM, use smaller HDD, larger HDD, more CPU cores, less CPU cores, etc. No change.
Surely *someone* has installed CentOS 6 in a KVM VM and gotten it to work? :)
--Tim
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Tim Nelson tnelson@rockbochs.com wrote:
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----- Original Message -----
Greetings-
I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM. Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of note.
Of interesting note, it now no longer hangs on selinux-policy-targeted, but every time now on qla2xxx-firmware which is the last package. I've let it sit overnight, same results.
Even though I'd already verified MD5 of the ISO, I redownloaded from a different mirror, same results. I've tried disabling ACPI on the VM, giving less RAM, more RAM, use smaller HDD, larger HDD, more CPU cores, less CPU cores, etc. No change.
Surely *someone* has installed CentOS 6 in a KVM VM and gotten it to work? :)
Yes I have quite a few CentOS 6 installs in KVM and have not experienced any of the issues you have mentioned.
On 05/18/2012 11:19 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:
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----- Original Message -----
Greetings-
I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM. Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of note.
Of interesting note, it now no longer hangs on selinux-policy-targeted, but every time now on qla2xxx-firmware which is the last package. I've let it sit overnight, same results.
Even though I'd already verified MD5 of the ISO, I redownloaded from a different mirror, same results. I've tried disabling ACPI on the VM, giving less RAM, more RAM, use smaller HDD, larger HDD, more CPU cores, less CPU cores, etc. No change.
Surely *someone* has installed CentOS 6 in a KVM VM and gotten it to work? :)
I see a delay after all packages are installed as well sometimes and I think this has something to do with post-install jobs that have to be done. How big is your boot partition?
Regards, Dennis
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On 05/18/2012 11:19 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:
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----- Original Message -----
Greetings-
I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM. Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of note.
Of interesting note, it now no longer hangs on selinux-policy-targeted, but every time now on qla2xxx-firmware which is the last package. I've let it sit overnight, same results.
Even though I'd already verified MD5 of the ISO, I redownloaded from a different mirror, same results. I've tried disabling ACPI on the VM, giving less RAM, more RAM, use smaller HDD, larger HDD, more CPU cores, less CPU cores, etc. No change.
Surely *someone* has installed CentOS 6 in a KVM VM and gotten it to work? :)
I see a delay after all packages are installed as well sometimes and I think this has something to do with post-install jobs that have to be done. How big is your boot partition?
I have a 4GB swap partition, then the rest is dedicated to /, of course including /boot.
--Tim
I see a delay after all packages are installed as well sometimes and I think this has something to do with post-install jobs that have to be done. How big is your boot partition?
I see a huge delay as well, and I think it's unrelated to %post. I've timed my kickstart file %post section and it completes within seconds, whereas it takes a long time (5m? 10m?) before it even gets to %post.
That's on a real machine, not kvm, though.
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I see a delay after all packages are installed as well sometimes and I think this has something to do with post-install jobs that have to be done. How big is your boot partition?
I see a huge delay as well, and I think it's unrelated to %post. I've timed my kickstart file %post section and it completes within seconds, whereas it takes a long time (5m? 10m?) before it even gets to %post.
That's on a real machine, not kvm, though.
I've seen (and am comfortable with) the normal delay after package installation. But, leaving the system sit overnight and it still now completing makes me think there is something else amiss. I've got a new install sitting at the same location, hoping maybe now until Monday morning is enough time to fix it. :)
--Tim
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