Hyper-V Installation Support

[remyservices]

It seems that currently Mageia 3 cannot install directly or even live boot within a VM hosted in Hyper-V. I'm not sure at this time the exact issues but the VMs lock up after a few minutes of running, either during the install process or just sitting after boot. For install it also locks up when using the cli to install.

As the kernel supports hyperv is this some other issue that is being addressed? I can't find a single mention of Mageia and Hyper-V in these forums or elsewhere.

[remyservices]

Might be worth mentioning that Mageia 4 beta 2 does not have the issue at this time, just Mageia 3.

[doktor5000]

As the kernel supports hyperv is this some other issue that is being addressed? I can't find a single mention of Mageia and Hyper-V in these forums or elsewhere.

Well, it's not being adressed as it hasn't been reported yet, nor is it a common use-case.
You may want to look at http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic.php?t=129072
As the linux distros that support Hyper-V are quite old in terms of kernel (RHEL 6.4 comes with 2.6.32) that probably means that most recent linux distributions might have problems:
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc ... 10%29.aspx

Anyways, what you could easily do is test common boot options, like interrupt timer values, acpi and stuff like that:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootO ... el_Options

[doktor5000]

I'm starting to this it is an issue with hv_storvsc or some other virtual disk issue. I've tried Mageia 3 with both thin and thick disks with the same error shortly after the system formats the virtual disk.

Code: Select all

sd 2:0:0:0: [sda]
Sense Key : No Sense [current]
hv_storvsc vmbus_0_2: cmd 0x41 scsi status srb status 0x6

This just ends up repeating over and over in console 4 while in console 3 i have the following as the last page. (this was from the net install cd but I get similar from the install iso)

Code: Select all

 running: mount --bind /run /mnt/run
 mounting none on /mnt/proc as type proc, options
 running: mount -t proc none /mnt/proc
 mounting none on /mnt/sys as type sysfs, options
 running: mount -t sysfs none /mnt/sys
 mounting none on /mnt/sys/kernel/debug/usb as type debugfs, options
 step "formatPartitions" took: 0:00:14
 step 'formatPartitions' finished
 starting step 'choosePackages'
 change_phys_medium http://mirror.netcologne.de/mageia/distrib/3/x06_64/media for file media_info
 getFile media_info/media.cfg on http://mirror.netcologne.de/mageia/distrib/3/x06_64/media
 retrieving  media.cfg
 '/usr/bin/curl' -q' '--location-trusted' -R' '-f' '--disable-epsu' '--connect-timeout' '60' '--a
 nyauth' '--stderr' '-'  '-0' 'http://mirror.netcologne.de/mageia/distrib/3/x06_64/mediamedia_info/me
 dia.cfg'
 retrieved media.cfg
 $phys_medium = {
              'is_suppl' => '',
              'url' => 'http://mirror.netcologne.de/mageia/distrib/3/x06_64/medie',
              'method' => 'http',
              'is_stage2_phys_medium' => 1
            };

 $stage2_phys_medium = {
                   'url' => 'http://mirror.netcologne.de/mageia/distrib/3/x06_641',
                   'method' => 'http',
                  };

 adding distrib media from http://mirror.netcologne.de/mageia/distrib/3/x06_64
 retrieving media.cfg file...
 retrieving media/media_info/media.cfg
 '/usr/bin/curl' '-q' '-s' '--location-trusted' '-R' '-f' '--disable-epsv' '--connect-timeout' '60'
 '--anyauth' '--stderr' '-' '-0' 'http://mirror.netcologne.de/mageia/distrib/3/x06_64/media/media_in
 fo/media.cfg'
 retrieved media/media_info/media.cfg
 opening rpmdb (root=mnt, write=)
_

[doktor5000]

Please next time use code tags as explained in ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandriva/m ... e_tags.ogv

I'm starting to this it is an issue with hv_storvsc or some other virtual disk issue. I've tried Mageia 3 with both thin and thick disks with the same error shortly after the system formats the virtual disk.

Code: Select all

sd 2:0:0:0: [sda]
Sense Key : No Sense [current]
hv_storvsc vmbus_0_2: cmd 0x41 scsi status srb status 0x6

You'd probably need a kernel >= 3.9 in the installer. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... omments/15

EDIT: FWIW, this was the only relevant result when searching for the error message hv_storvsc vmbus_0_2: cmd 0x41 scsi status srb status 0x6

Maybe you want to try Cauldron for testing purposes: http://www.mageia.org/en/4/

[remyservices]

Sorry about that, didn't see the code tags, was in the lite editor and didn't see that I was.

That bug would make sense as the current cauldron does boot and install without issue.
I guess with Mageia 4 this will be resolved but for 3 I'd need an install iso with newer kernel.

Thanks for the help!

[doktor5000]

I guess with Mageia 4 this will be resolved but for 3 I'd need an install iso with newer kernel.

Not necessarily. You could also install a chroot on another linux and as Mageia 3 has kernel >= 3.10 in repos,
install that additionally, then transfer it into a hyper-v guest, e.g. by creating the harddisk via qemu-img or converting it via Virtualbox or whatever you're familiar with.

Installing the chroot via urpmi is dead simple, also some of the basics are explained in https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Chroot