[CentOS] Installation of CentOS 6 on KVM - Hangs

Fri May 18 21:48:51 UTC 2012
Tim Nelson <tnelson at rockbochs.com>

----- Original Message -----
> On 05/18/2012 11:19 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> ----- 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