Bug 5865

Summary: Installation process cant find xen virtual harddrive
Product: Mageia Reporter: Andres Kaaber <andres.kaaber>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: alien, guillomovitch, mageia, pterjan, rick, thierry.vignaud, tmb
Version: CauldronKeywords: PATCH
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments: add support for Xen disks

Description Andres Kaaber 2012-05-12 10:28:41 CEST
During installation on citrix xenserver virtual machine, installer cant find hard drive, usin Mageia 2 RC 64 DVD. Hardware explorer (the tool you can use before you start install) sees disk perfectly.
Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-12 12:16:12 CEST
another missing module ?

CC: (none) => mageia, pterjan, thierry.vignaud, tmb

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-12 22:18:41 CEST
Please attach installer logs (/tmp/ddebug.log)

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 3 Andres Kaaber 2012-05-13 21:53:21 CEST
I dont know how can I get the file. Right now could only do the screen shot of the console http://tinypic.com/r/mki1s7/6
I hope it helps.
Comment 4 Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-14 10:31:37 CEST
just plug an usb key and run "bug" from the console (but after you get the error at the partitionning step)
Comment 5 Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-14 10:34:19 CEST
type alt+ctrl+2 in order to get the console where is the shell

There're several consoles:
- 1st console: installer info (or text installer)
- 2nd one: shell
- 3rd: full installer logs
- 4th: kernel logs
- 7th: the graphical installer
Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-14 10:48:01 CEST

CC: (none) => guillomovitch

Comment 6 Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-14 11:08:09 CEST
Created attachment 2304 [details]
add support for Xen disks

I think supporting Xen discs is as simple as this patch.
The stage1 support would need actual testing of course (but as it's needed only for disk installs, it's not high priority).
Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-14 11:08:38 CEST

Keywords: (none) => PATCH

Comment 7 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:09:32 CEST
Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja
Comment 8 Andres Kaaber 2012-05-29 09:53:07 CEST
Yes, the bug is still valid for Mageia 2
Sander Lepik 2012-05-29 10:20:48 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
CC: (none) => sander.lepik

Comment 9 Colin Guthrie 2012-05-29 10:46:52 CEST
I don't know much about Xen stuff and TV seems to have a patch so I'll drop out of this bug report. I can't see it being fixed for mga2 tho' seeing as it's an installer thing.

CC: mageia => (none)

Comment 10 Richard Houser 2012-07-29 23:18:44 CEST
I think I'm hitting this same bug, and it's completely preventing me from installing Mageia 2 on xen (either with paravirt or emulated disk controllers on fully-virtualized machines).  I have a Mageia 2 Dom0 running fine, however.

It looks like you are currently lacking a tester, but I don't know where to start for updating the stage2.  Can that be patched in-place, etc?

CC: (none) => rick

Comment 11 Thierry Vignaud 2012-07-30 10:41:53 CEST
See https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Drakx-installer_tips_and_tricks#Debugging_the_stage2

Note that I've noticed that mga & redhat kernel do not use the same major for xen devices...
might be an issue depending on the host server...
Comment 12 AL13N 2013-03-04 00:20:35 CET
@Richard, @Andres:

does it work with current cauldron? i suppose you're testing it on hvm(not para)?

CC: (none) => alien

Comment 13 Andres Kaaber 2013-03-05 09:33:09 CET
It is working with current cauldron on hvm
Comment 14 Thierry Vignaud 2013-03-06 06:34:39 CET
Closing then

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED