I've had another attempt at installing Wheezy 64 bit from a template as PV. I attach my full script below.
I've made much more progress this time, but there are still outstanding issues: - neither "xe console" or VNC seems to allow ALT-F[2-6] keystrokes, so I can't get other virtual terminals and therefore can't obtain any useful log/status messages. This issue alone makes me feel I'm really wasting my time as it prevents me doing any serious troubleshooting efficiently. - when I connect with "xe console", it doesn't show me the current content of the screen, I have to press enter - but that pushes the installer to the next menu - I still can't get expert mode install, it always seems to go with the basic install (unless I do a HVM install like the other day, booting from ISO) - networking is really troublesome, I have to deliberately hit the cancel button in both the IPv6 auto-config and DHCP screens, otherwise it seems to think it has a valid IPv6 address and doesn't let me put in the desired IPv4 address - this is partly speculation though, because without the other virtual consoles, I can't really check which address it picked up - I couldn't find any convenient way to override the disk size when using the vm-install command, and I have to delete and recreate the VDI, this is a pain when scripting However, my install did succeed, but it gives some errors about "g.e. still in use": ┌─────────────────────┤ Finishing the installation ├──────────────────────┐ │ │ │ 95% │ │ │ The system is going down NOW!ystem... │ Sent SIGTERM to all processes │ Sent SIGKILL to all processes───────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Requesting system reboot [ 1419.728488] WARNING: g.e. still in use! [ 1419.728500] WARNING: g.e. still in use! [ 1424.673842] Restarting system. Here is the script I used to build the VM: #!/bin/bash set -e NEW_HOST=wheezytest2 DISK_SIZE=5GiB TMPL="Debian Wheezy 7.0 (64-bit)" DEB_MIRROR=http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian NET0=xenbr1 SR_NAME="testSR0" TMPL_UUID=$(xe template-list name-label="${TMPL}" --minimal) NET0_UUID=$(xe network-list bridge=${NET0} --minimal) SR_UUID=$(xe sr-list name-label=${SR_NAME} --minimal) VM_UUID=$(xe vm-install template=$TMPL_UUID new-name-label="${NEW_HOST}") xe vm-param-set uuid=${VM_UUID} other-config:install-repository=${DEB_MIRROR} xe vif-create vm-uuid=${VM_UUID} network-uuid=${NET0_UUID} device=0 # the following 6 lines are needed to change the VDI size # because there is no disk-size option for vm-install VBD_UUID=$(xe vbd-list vm-uuid=${VM_UUID} --minimal) VDI_UUID=$(xe vdi-list vbd-uuids=${VBD_UUID} --minimal) xe vdi-destroy uuid=${VDI_UUID} xe vm-disk-add vm=${VM_UUID} disk-size=${DISK_SIZE} device=0 VBD_UUID=$(xe vbd-list vm-uuid=${VM_UUID} --minimal) xe vbd-param-set bootable=true uuid=${VBD_UUID} echo "New VM UUID = ${VM_UUID}" xe vm-start uuid=${VM_UUID} -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
