[et-mgmt-tools] Scientific Linux 4.6 paravirt install works - FC7 or FC8 not

[Michael DeHaan]

Jens Ahrens wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm running FC7 as Dom0 and set up some paravirt SL 4.6 machines with cobbler-0.8.0-1.fc7 and koan-0.8.0-1.fc7. When I tried to setup a FC7 pvm the console output stops at a certain point:
>
> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 938k
>
> Almost the same result for FC8 - it stops saying:
>
> Determining IP Adress for eth0
>
> and hangs forever. When I set up a dhcp server on Dom0 manually for e.g. the FC8-Install the installation goes fairly automatically (some queries that a package can't be found - after retrying it is found). 
> My question why does a SL4.6 install work without a dedicated dhcp server and  FC7 or FC8 do not?
>   

Ten to one it's not actually hanging.

What happens is that Xen has switched over from showing the console to 
showing via VNC.

To suppress this behavior, use koan with --nogfx or just switch to using 
virt-manager at that point.

> Thanks for any help,
> Cheers,
> Jens
>
>
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