On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:42:40 -0700 Kenneth Tanzer <ktanzer@xxxxxxxx> 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. -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
