I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or qla2xx-firmware RPMs. At this point, the installation hangs, and never completes. I'm unable to see what is going on 'under the hood' on another TTY as the console does not appear to be accepting my CTL-ALT-Fx commands either.
I have also tried installing using the full bin DVD1, but the initial installation errors out immediately noting the yum package cannot be read from source disk/etc. And yes, I have checked the MD5s on all downloaded ISOs.
I can readily duplicate this. Any thoughts or pointers on the cause and/or solution?
Thanks!
--Tim
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05-16-2012, 04:29 PM
Tim Nelson
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> Greetings-
>
> I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine
> running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB
> RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal
> or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM. Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of note.
--Tim
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05-17-2012, 03:49 PM
Daniel J Walsh
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On 05/16/2012 12:29 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Greetings-
>>
>> I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine running
>> via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB RAM, and
>> 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal or netinstall
>> CDs until installation of the selinux or
>
> More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM. Not
> sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of note.
>
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How much memory did you give to the VM? selinux-policy rpm within a update
takes a lot of memory.
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Daniel J Walsh writes:
> On 05/16/2012 12:29 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Greetings-
> >>
> >> I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine running
> >> via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB RAM, and
> >> 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal or netinstall
> >> CDs until installation of the selinux or
> >
> > More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM. Not
> > sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of note.
> >
> > --Tim _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list
> > CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
> How much memory did you give to the VM? selinux-policy rpm within a update
> takes a lot of memory.
Absolutely. I found that it will not work well or at all with less than
512MB of RAM. If less is wanted, it can be reduced afterwards, but that's
the minimum needed for installation.
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05-17-2012, 04:04 PM
Daniel J Walsh
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On 05/17/2012 12:01 PM, Lars Hecking wrote:
> Daniel J Walsh writes:
>> On 05/16/2012 12:29 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> Greetings-
>>>>
>>>> I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine
>>>> running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB
>>>> RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal
>>>> or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
>>>
>>> More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM.
>>> Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of note.
>>>
>>> --Tim _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing
>>> list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>> How much memory did you give to the VM? selinux-policy rpm within a
>> update takes a lot of memory.
>
> Absolutely. I found that it will not work well or at all with less than
> 512MB of RAM. If less is wanted, it can be reduced afterwards, but that's
> the minimum needed for installation.
>
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Yes installing with less then 512 would be a problem. It might be a little
better in RHEL7.
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----- Original Message -----
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Greetings-
> >
> > I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine
> > running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB
> > RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal
> > or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
>
> More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM.
> Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of
> note.
>
Of interesting note, it now no longer hangs on selinux-policy-targeted, but every time now on qla2xxx-firmware which is the last package. I've let it sit overnight, same results.
Even though I'd already verified MD5 of the ISO, I redownloaded from a different mirror, same results. I've tried disabling ACPI on the VM, giving less RAM, more RAM, use smaller HDD, larger HDD, more CPU cores, less CPU cores, etc. No change.
Surely *someone* has installed CentOS 6 in a KVM VM and gotten it to work?
--Tim
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05-18-2012, 09:30 PM
Dean Jones
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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Tim Nelson <tnelson@rockbochs.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > Greetings-
>> >
>> > I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine
>> > running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB
>> > RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal
>> > or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
>>
>> More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM.
>> Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of
>> note.
>>
>
> Of interesting note, it now no longer hangs on selinux-policy-targeted, but every time now on qla2xxx-firmware which is the last package. I've let it sit overnight, same results.
>
> Even though I'd already verified MD5 of the ISO, I redownloaded from a different mirror, same results. I've tried disabling ACPI on the VM, giving less RAM, more RAM, use smaller HDD, larger HDD, more CPU cores, less CPU cores, etc. No change.
>
> Surely *someone* has installed CentOS 6 in a KVM VM and gotten it to work?
Yes I have quite a few CentOS 6 installs in KVM and have not
experienced any of the issues you have mentioned.
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05-18-2012, 09:31 PM
Paul Heinlein
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On Fri, 18 May 2012, Tim Nelson wrote:
Surely *someone* has installed CentOS 6 in a KVM VM and gotten it to
work?
Time after time after time. :-)
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05-18-2012, 09:35 PM
Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
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On 05/18/2012 11:19 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> Greetings-
>>>
>>> I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine
>>> running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB
>>> RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal
>>> or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
>>
>> More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted RPM.
>> Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of
>> note.
>>
>
> Of interesting note, it now no longer hangs on selinux-policy-targeted, but every time now on qla2xxx-firmware which is the last package. I've let it sit overnight, same results.
>
> Even though I'd already verified MD5 of the ISO, I redownloaded from a different mirror, same results. I've tried disabling ACPI on the VM, giving less RAM, more RAM, use smaller HDD, larger HDD, more CPU cores, less CPU cores, etc. No change.
>
> Surely *someone* has installed CentOS 6 in a KVM VM and gotten it to work?
I see a delay after all packages are installed as well sometimes and I
think this has something to do with post-install jobs that have to be done.
How big is your boot partition?
Regards,
Dennis
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05-18-2012, 09:48 PM
Tim Nelson
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----- Original Message -----
> On 05/18/2012 11:19 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> Greetings-
> >>>
> >>> I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine
> >>> running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs,
> >>> 4GB
> >>> RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either
> >>> minimal
> >>> or netinstall CDs until installation of the selinux or
> >>
> >> More specifically, it's hanging on the selinux-policy-targeted
> >> RPM.
> >> Not sure if this makes a difference, but I thought it worthy of
> >> note.
> >>
> >
> > Of interesting note, it now no longer hangs on
> > selinux-policy-targeted, but every time now on qla2xxx-firmware
> > which is the last package. I've let it sit overnight, same
> > results.
> >
> > Even though I'd already verified MD5 of the ISO, I redownloaded
> > from a different mirror, same results. I've tried disabling ACPI
> > on the VM, giving less RAM, more RAM, use smaller HDD, larger HDD,
> > more CPU cores, less CPU cores, etc. No change.
> >
> > Surely *someone* has installed CentOS 6 in a KVM VM and gotten it
> > to work?
>
> I see a delay after all packages are installed as well sometimes and
> I
> think this has something to do with post-install jobs that have to be
> done.
> How big is your boot partition?
I have a 4GB swap partition, then the rest is dedicated to /, of course including /boot.
--Tim
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