[Fedora-xen] Problem Installing Fedora 7 as a Guest on Xen machine

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:34:22 -0700 (PDT)
Kaloyan Tenchov <zayfod at yahoo.com> wrote:

> You do not specify your exact problem with the installation.

Anaconda has started, but soon goes into a completely frozen
hung state using 100% cpu (according to the vm monitor on the dom0).
Everything is totally non-responsive. Even the little comet
orbiting the cursor in the console freezes up (along with the cursor).

It acts exactly like this bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237895

except "random time" always happens before I can even get it
through an install :-).

The dom0 is running Xen in fedora core 6 (x86_64), I'm trying
to install an i386 guest fedora 7 (fully virtual).

I also have to use the noisapnp=1 kernel boot parameter to even
get this far, otherwise it hangs when booting the kernel to do
the install at the "scanning for isa pnp cards" step.

And, in addition to that, the fedora 7 kernel apparently doesn't
have (or can't find) a driver for the emulated cdrom, so I have
to do a network install rather than installing completely from the
DVD iso image.

I can work around most of these, but the freezing during install
is harder (though I've seen some folks using the livecd builder
to build images for xen guests, which might be an approach, but I
haven't looked at trying to figure that out yet).