[virt-tools-list] virt-install hangs when rebooting guest

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On July 24, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> I'm having a tough time trying to get virt-install to create a usable
> guest with xen. virt-install hangs after printing its restarting the
> guest, and the guest itself is listed as paused, with 0 vcpus.
> resuming/unpausing the guest doesn't actually seem to do anything, and
> its still stuck with 0 vcpus.
> 
> Also, virsh commands take several seconds to do anything, not sure whats
> causing that.
> 
> Thanks,

It seems its related to trying to install debian in xen. Once I converted 
the virt-instal config to a xen-xm config, removed the "bootloader" item, and 
added the kernel and initrd items, everything started up.

I guess I'll have to use straight xen tools till I can figure this out.

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Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom at shaw.ca