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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, due to ongoing instabilities with Xen on a Raspberry Pi (seemingly random crashes where I couldn't figure out the cause yet, I suspect networking as the root cause), I am switching to a low-powered x64 platform (APU 4D4 with GX-412TC CPU). I already have the same hardware running very stably for a couple of years with Xen for a different purpose. I now have installed Debian Trixie as a Dom0 on the hardware, and then went through the usual hoops to install Xen on the system, which seems to be running running fine so far. Then I tried to install a Debian DomU. It seems that things have gotten more complicated than I am used to: - The xen-tools package with the handy create-xen-image tool is not available for Trixie. Ok, install a Debian HVM instead. - Starting a HVM DomU with networking is not possible without manually installing ipxe-qemu package (bug 1120146 which already has been fixed, but is not in the current release yet [1]). - When running the Debian (I tried both Trixie and Bookworm, with the same result) installer from a netinstall image as HVM DomU, the installer fails while installing grub with error code 1 (last couple of installation log lines below). I couldn't find any related bug so far. I tried both BIOS and UEFI boot methods, with the same outcome. On the plus side, the issue with the OVMF package seems to have been fixed? [2] At least the installation iso is booting with OVMF out of the box. I now am stuck and would be grateful for any pointers, specifically: 1. Does anybody have a hint how to install a Debian Trixie HVM DomU? 2. Does anybody have xen-tools running or another efficient way to create a Trixie PV DomU? Best regards, Paul Installation log: Dec 22 22:17:13 in-target: Setting up grub-common (2.12-9) ... Dec 22 22:17:13 in-target: ^M Dec 22 22:17:14 in-target: Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/grub-common.service' → '/usr/lib/systemd/system/grub-common.service'.^M Dec 22 22:17:14 in-target: ^M Dec 22 22:17:14 in-target: Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/suspend.target.wants/grub-common.service' → '/usr/lib/systemd/system/grub-common.service'.^M Dec 22 22:17:14 in-target: ^M Dec 22 22:17:14 in-target: Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/hibernate.target.wants/grub-common.service' → '/usr/lib/systemd/system/grub-common.service'.^M^M Dec 22 22:17:14 in-target: Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/hybrid-sleep.target.wants/grub-common.service' → '/usr/lib/systemd/system/grub-common.service'.^M^M Dec 22 22:17:14 in-target: Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/suspend-then-hibernate.target.wants/grub-common.service' → '/usr/lib/systemd/system/grub-common.service'.^M^M Dec 22 22:17:14 in-target: Setting up os-prober (1.83) ... Dec 22 22:17:14 in-target: ^M Dec 22 22:17:14 in-target: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.148.3) ... Dec 22 22:17:14 in-target: ^M Dec 22 22:17:14 in-target: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.12.57+deb13-amd64 Dec 22 22:17:14 in-target: ^M Dec 22 22:17:53 in-target: Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.41-12) ...^M Dec 22 22:17:53 in-target: Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.1-1) ... Dec 22 22:17:53 in-target: ^M Dec 22 22:17:55 kernel: [ 1600.010775] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 Dec 22 22:17:55 kernel: [ 1600.020147] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A Dec 22 22:17:56 kernel: [ 1600.184705] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 Dec 22 22:17:56 kernel: [ 1600.193352] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A Dec 22 22:17:56 /bin/in-target: warning: /target/etc/mtab won't be updated since it is a symlink. Dec 22 22:17:57 in-target: Reading package lists... Dec 22 22:17:57 in-target: Dec 22 22:17:57 in-target: Building dependency tree... Dec 22 22:17:58 in-target: Dec 22 22:17:58 in-target: Reading state information... Dec 22 22:17:58 in-target: Dec 22 22:18:01 in-target: grub-common is already the newest version (2.12-9). Dec 22 22:18:01 in-target: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Dec 22 22:18:02 kernel: [ 1606.330139] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 Dec 22 22:18:02 kernel: [ 1606.339875] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A Dec 22 22:18:02 kernel: [ 1606.503113] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 Dec 22 22:18:02 kernel: [ 1606.511610] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A Dec 22 22:18:02 main-menu[312]: WARNING **: Configuring 'grub-installer' failed with error code 1 Dec 22 22:18:02 main-menu[312]: WARNING **: Menu item 'grub-installer' failed. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1120146 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1050030