[rhelv6-list] Yum problems with new install within a KVM

[D G Teed]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:25 PM, D G Teed <donald.teed at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> It sits like this hung for over three minutes.  control-C has no impact.
> kill -9 was required to stop yum update
>
> This is pretty much "straight out of the box".  Is there still QA being
> done on Redhat Enterprise?
> I mean, beyond the Fedora users?
>
> --Donald
>
>
This erratic behaviour was related to the parent host KVM being slightly
old.
Strangely, that had no ill effect on Debian guest hosts, only Redhat.
I updated the packages on the parent host and then a new install of
RH6 as a VM was much more stable.

Here is a bug report discussing the problem as it bit other people:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607650

This is my first encounter with KVM introducing instability you would
have never seen on a regular metal host.  Too bad the guest host
can't detect the version of libvirt + kernel on the parent and issue a
warning.

--Donald
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