Description of problem: can't install Fedora 15 in qemu Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qemu-0.14.0-7.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 0. sha256sum -c Fedora-15-x86_64-CHECKSUM 1. qemu-img create -f qcow2 F15.qcow2 10G 2. qemu-kvm -m 512 -cdrom Fedora-15-x86_64-DVD.iso F15.qcow2 3. choose "Install a new system or upgrade an existing sytem" Actual results: the installation freezes, qemu eats 100% cpu the last message is: [ 0.135858] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs... Expected results: the system installs without any problem Additional info: installation of Fedora 14 goes just fine ...
shame on me, I've missed that I need 640 MiB RAM (oh my ...) http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Welcome_to_Fedora_15.html#sect-Release_Notes-Hardware_Overview anyway, hard freeze instead of properly reported error is bad behaviour so turning this into RFE
This is way too early for anaconda to do any sort of check - it's still the kernel setting the environment up. We are, however, working on making things fit into memory better.
(In reply to comment #2) > This is way too early for anaconda to do any sort of check - it's still the > kernel setting the environment up. then let's pass this to kernel ... it should report some sort of "out of memory" message instead of just hanging (or what does it do?)
It panics, with a trace that starts: [ 2.546782] Call Trace: [ 2.547107] [<ffffffff81467a3a>] ? panic+0x91/0x19c [ 2.547674] [<ffffffff810daf85>] ? out_of_memory+0x2e2/0x378 Which seems pretty clear to me, but there's some proposed patches to make this clearer in bug 680542. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 680542 ***
(In reply to comment #4) > It panics, with a trace that starts: > [ 2.546782] Call Trace: > [ 2.547107] [<ffffffff81467a3a>] ? panic+0x91/0x19c > [ 2.547674] [<ffffffff810daf85>] ? out_of_memory+0x2e2/0x378 hm, this hasn't happened on my system - at least not within reasonable timeframe (i.e. tenths of minutes)