[Fedora-xen] Installing FC9 guest on Centos 5 fails installing OO writer2latex

[Kenneth Tanzer]

Thanks to all who offered responses.  I tried this again, using an LVM 
volume instead of a file-backed disk.  It still hangs again at the exact 
same spot.  Again, the mouse is not responsive, nor does it respond to 
ctrl-alt-f1, f2, etc.  The VM manager shows it is still running, and 
using about 12.5% of my CPU (although it fluctuates a bit).  The machine 
also still responds to pings.

Any other suggestions, either for fixing or useful troubleshooting/error 
reporting, or should I just give this up as a lost cause?  Thanks in 
advance.

Ken

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:42:40 -0700
> Kenneth Tanzer <ktanzer at desc.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> I've tried three times to install Fedora Core 9 as a PV guest on a 
>> Centos 5 host.  Every time, it gets most of the way through the install, 
>> and then hangs on installing openoffice.org-writer2latex-0.5-2.fc9.i386.
>>     
>
> I had enormous problems with lots of installs using an older Xen
> and file: devices for virtual disks. I would constantly see the sort
> of stuff you describe with the VM going funny in the head during
> heavy I/O (like installing openoffice - that was a favorite place for
> it to die).
>
> I switched the host machine to debian etch, and built what was
> at the time the latest mercurial version of 3.2.1 from source, booting
> the host with the dom0 kernel built during the Xen build from
> scratch.
>
> I then switched all my virtual disks to tap:aio: instead of file:
> and since those changes, everything has been working great. No
> install problems, no mysterious VM crashes when cron kicks off
> makewhatis, etc.
>
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