Bug 499762

Summary:	fedora10 guest install hangs 31% through fetching install.img
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Aron Griffis <aron.griffis>
Component:	kvm	Assignee:	Glauber Costa <gcosta>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	berrange, clalance, ehabkost, gcosta, markmc, quintela, virt-maint
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Aron Griffis 2009-05-08 03:01:48 UTC

Description of problem:
rawhide (post-f11preview) on HP ProLiant DL385.  Attempt to install f10 guest
with:

virt-install --name=f10-vm1 --ram=256 --hvm --accelerate \
  --location=http://md2020.nashua/install/x86_64/fedora10/ \
  --file=/dev/VolGroup00/f10-vm1 --nographics \
  --extra-args=console=ttyS0,115200

It always hangs here:

Welcome to Fedora for x86_64
+----------------------------+ Retrieving +----------------------------+
|                                                                      |
| Retrieving install.img.../                                           |
|                                                                      |
|                                  31%                                 |
|                                                                      |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
<Tab>/<Alt-Tab> between elements  | <Space> selects | <F12> next screen

I've tried text install (--nographics as above) and vnc console, doesn't make
a difference, always hangs in the same spot.  I've also tried with and without
proxy settings, same thing.  I am able to wget install.img to the host so it
doesn't seem to be a problem with the server.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.29.2-126.fc11.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.10-16.fc11.x86_64
python-virtinst-0.400.3-8.fc11.noarch
libvirt-0.6.2-6.fc11.x86_64
libvirt-python-0.6.2-6.fc11.x86_64

How reproducible:
three times in a row

Comment 1 Aron Griffis 2009-05-08 03:34:28 UTC

Okay, figured out that it's running out of memory.  Increasing to --ram=512 allows the transfer to complete and the installation to continue

Comment 2 Aron Griffis 2009-05-08 13:08:13 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 499763 ***