Avi: This is very strange. I have been experimenting with the TKL LAMP appliance to figure out why it sometimes installs with the accelerate option and why it fails at other times. My experimentation lead to a very strange circumstance where I can get things to work: 1. Start with either a pre-existing disk from a previous installation or no disk file. 2. Issue this command to install the guest (All on one line): virt-install -n v1067 -r 512 --vcpus=1 --os-type=linux --os-variant=ubuntuhardy -v -c /tmp/turnkey-lamp-2009.10-hardy-x86.iso -f /var/lib/libvirt/images/v1067.img -s 15 -b br0 --vnc --noautoconsole --accelerate 3. Connect to the VNC console 4. When the Turnkey Linux splash screen comes up, there is a 30 sec countdown timer on it. Wait until that timer counts down to 5 sec left and the select Install to hard disk. 5. Continue the install as normal. 6. When the appliance finishes installed, it will ask to reboot, allow it to do so. It will shut down. 7. Edit the guest's XML file and remove <model type='virtio'/> from the network interface. The appliance crashes during boot if I leave the virtio model in the file. 8. Boot the appliance. Everything works now and it is running fast. I ran the install 5 times just to be sure this procedure works. It ran without problems every time. There must be some kind of race condition that is solved when I wait in step 4. Step 7 seems to be the known issue with virtio referred to on the guest support status page. I am preplexed that it works, but I am not complaining! Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://UnmeteredVPS.net CentOS 5.4 VPS with unmetered bandwidth only $25/month! No overage charges, 7 day free trial, PayPal, Google Checkout -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
