Re: [Xen-devel] OSSTest -- debian-hvm-install, how to see the progress of guest auto installation

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 10:30 +0000, Hu, Robert wrote:
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ian Campbell [mailto:ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 4:59 PM
> > To: Hu, Robert; ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: OSSTest -- debian-hvm-install, how to see the progress of 
> > guest
> > auto installation
> > 
> > On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 08:47 +0000, Hu, Robert wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Ian Campbell [mailto:ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > > > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 4:46 PM
> > > > To: Hu, Robert; ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Subject: Re: OSSTest -- debian-hvm-install, how to see the progress 
> > > > of
> > > > guest
> > > > auto installation
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 08:29 +0000, Hu, Robert wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Please can you not top post.
> > > > 
> > > > > Further more, now I see debian-hvm guest boots up. But it hangs 
> > > > > at
> > > > > 'Starting MTA'.
> > > > > Is MTA necessary?
> > > > 
> > > > Not really, but it's part of the standard Debian installation.
> > > > 
> > > > If it is hanging then that usually indicates something is wrong 
> > > > with
> > > > networking, either connectivity or DNS etc. Removing the MTA would
> > > > simply
> > > > be working around that underlying issue
> > > Do you know how to disable it? seems it is not a service?
> > 
> > I don't know how to turn off the MTA during install, and like I said 
> > that
> > is not the approach you should be taking to resolve this issue. Instead 
> > you
> > should fix whatever it is that is broken about the network in your test
> > case.
> I checked my network environment settings, all common settings are set
> correctly (dns, routes, gateway, ntp, etc.). I don't see any network 
> configuration
> shall blocking MTA start up, unless it has some special requirements.

Best check the logs in the guest to see why it is blocking then.

Ian.

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