I am trying to a install Centos 5.1 32-bit Xen HVM DomU onto a Centos 5.1 64bit DomU with the default xen installed and the kickstart hangs at random points during the install process. Sometimes retrieving the image, sometimes formatting the filesystem, sometimes installing the packages,etc.

I tried upgrading to xen 3.2 and encounter the same problem before rebuilding back to stock Centos 5.1 64-bit Xen. I am able to use our kickstarts configs to install Centos 5.1 64-bit HVM and Centos 4.5 32-bit HVM on this machine without any problem's.

Below is xen configuration and the Centos 5.1 32-bit kickstart Config file I have been using.

Any help would be greatly appreciated and I can provide addition information if needed. * Xen DomU configuration file:*

name = "prod-xen-2" maxmem = 2048 memory = 2048 vcpus = 2 builder = "hvm" kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" boot = "d" pae = 1 acpi = 1 apic = 1 on_poweroff = "destroy" on_reboot = "restart" on_crash = "restart" device_model = "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm.debug" sdl = 0 vnc = 1 vncunused = 0 vncdisplay = 1 disk = [ "file:/tmp/prod-xenl-2.img,hda,w","file:/tmp/kickstart-20080307.iso,hdc:cdrom,r" ] vif = [ "bridge=xenbr0,type=ioemu,model=rtl8139" ] * Kickstart file:*

#System language lang en_US #Language modules to install langsupport en_US en --default=en_US #System keyboard keyboard us #System mouse mouse none #Sytem timezone timezone America/Los_Angeles #Root password rootpw --iscrypted $1$zdTapqUj$q.NMaDmwi1CjOPiRsyILB1 #Install OS instead of upgrade install url --url http://10.200.250.11/kickstart/OS/centos_5_1_32/ #Clear the Master Boot Record zerombr yes firewall --disabled selinux --disabled authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 bootloader --location=mbr --append="nofb" network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 logging --host=prod-utility-1.sea2.jobster.us --port=514 --level=info skipx reboot

#Partition clearing information clearpart --all #Partition the Drives part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 part swap --fstype swap --size=4096 part / --fstype ext3 --size=500 --grow

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shared-mime-info sharutils slang slang-devel smartmontools sos specspo splint -sqlite -sqlite-devel squashfs-tools -startup-notification statserial strace stunnel subversion sudo swig symlinks sysfsutils sysklogd syslinux #sysreport sysstat -system-config-date -system-config-network-tui -system-config-securitylevel-tui -systemtap -systemtap-runtime SysVinit talk tar tcl tcl-devel tcpdump tcp_wrappers tcsh telnet -telnet-server termcap tetex tetex-dvips tetex-fonts tetex-latex texinfo tftp time tk tk-devel tmpwatch traceroute -tree ttmkfdir tzdata udev unix2dos unzip urw-fonts usbutils usermode util-linux vconfig vim-common vim-enhanced -vim-minimal vixie-cron wget which -wireless-tools words -wpa_supplicant x86info Xaw3d -xferstats xinetd xkeyboard-config xml-common -xorg-x11-drv-evdev -xorg-x11-drv-keyboard -xorg-x11-drv-mouse -xorg-x11-drv-vesa -xorg-x11-drv-void xorg-x11-filesystem xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-base xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-misc xorg-x11-fonts-truetype xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 xorg-x11-font-utils xorg-x11-proto-devel xorg-x11-resutils xorg-x11-server-utils xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-utils xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-xbitmaps xorg-x11-xfs xorg-x11-xinit xorg-x11-xkb-utils xorg-x11-xsm xorg-x11-xtrans-devel -ypbind -yp-tools yum yum-updatesd zip zlib zlib-devel

#Post install scripts %post (

cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## CFEngine Install ## ############################################################################### EOF

rpm -Uvh http://kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/updates/rhel_5_32/cfengine/cfengine-2.1.22-... wget http://kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/kickstart/post-installs/common/cfengine/cfa... /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf wget http://kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/kickstart/post-installs/common/cfengine/upd... /var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf wget http://kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/kickstart/post-installs/common/cfengine/roo... /var/cfengine/ppkeys/root-10.200.1.39.pub wget http://kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/kickstart/post-installs/common/cfengine/roo... /var/cfengine/ppkeys/root-10.10.20.44.pub chown root.root /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf /var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf /var/cfengine/ppkeys/* chmod 664 /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf /var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf /var/cfengine/ppkeys/*

cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Network Failover (Bonding) Configuration ## ############################################################################### EOF

wget http://10.200.250.11/kickstart/post-installs/fc4/teaming/ifcfg-bond0 -O /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0 wget http://10.200.250.11/kickstart/post-installs/fc4/teaming/ifcfg-eth0 -O /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 wget http://10.200.250.11/kickstart/post-installs/fc4/teaming/ifcfg-eth1 -O /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 echo "alias bond0 bonding" >>/etc/modprobe.conf echo "options bond0 mode=1 miimon=100" >>/etc/modprobe.conf chmod 644 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0

cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Time Sync ## ############################################################################### EOF ntpdate prod-utility-vip.sea2.jobster.us hwclock --systohc

cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Disable Grub Splash Screen ## ############################################################################### EOF sed -i s'/^splash/#splash/'g /boot/grub/menu.lst sed -i s'/^hidden/#hidden/'g /boot/grub/menu.lst sed -i s'/quiet//'g /boot/grub/menu.lst

cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Disable IPv6 ## ############################################################################### EOF sed -i s'/^NETWORKING_IPV6=yes/NETWORKING_IPV6=no/'g /etc/sysconfig/network

cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Clean /etc/hosts ## ############################################################################### EOF cat /etc/hosts | grep -v dhcp >/etc/hosts.new rm -f /etc/hosts mv /etc/hosts.new /etc/hosts chmod 644 /etc/hosts

cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Copy searchdmi.sh ## ############################################################################### EOF wget http://kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/kickstart/post-installs/common/searchdmi.sh... /usr/local/sbin/searchdmi.sh chown root.root /usr/local/sbin/searchdmi.sh chmod 555 /usr/local/sbin/searchdmi.sh

cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Email Notification upon initial install only ## ############################################################################### EOF wget http://kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/kickstart/post-installs/common/email_el5.sh... /etc/rc3.d/S99email chmod 555 /etc/rc3.d/S99email chown root.root /etc/rc3.d/S99email

cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Turn off unneeded services in advance ## ############################################################################### EOF

export SERVICES="anacron atd auditd avahi-daemon cpuspeed cups gpm haldaemon ip6tables iptables iscsi iscsid iscsid kudzu lm_sensors mcstrans mdmonitor messagebus pcscd readahead_early resto recond rpcgssd rpcidmapd xfs yum-updatesd"

for service in $SERVICES; do chkconfig --level 12345 $service off; chkconfig --list $service; done

cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Turn on needed services in advance ## ############################################################################### EOF

export ON_SERVICES="snmpd ntpd" for service in $ON_SERVICES; do chkconfig --level 12345 $service on; chkconfig --list $service; done

############################################################################### ## Update the Linux Kernel ## ############################################################################### EOF rpm -Uvh http://kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/updates/centos5/static/i386/kernel-PAE-2.6.... http://kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/updates/centos5/static/i386/kernel-PAE-deve... . 18-53.1.4.el5.i686.rpm http://kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/updates/centos5/static/i386/kernel-headers-...

sed -i s'/default=.*/default=0/'g /boot/grub/grub.conf rpm -e kernel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5

cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Update System RPMS ## ############################################################################### EOF wget -P /tmp -np -q -r http://kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/updates/centos5/kickstart-postinstall/i386/ rpm -Uvh /tmp/ kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/updates/centos5/kickstart-postinstall/i386/*rpm rm -rfv /tmp/kickstart.sea2.jobster.us

cat <<EOF; # Done EOF )