On 17-07-24 20:56:46, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hi Viq, > > Regarding your email > >And removing VGA and switching to serial console only didn't help in my > >case, as I did that around the time I sent my previous mail, and I'm > >writing this one just after doing a hard reboot of a hanged VM. > > Can you confirm that you set the serial console, and then > set the display in Proxmox
libvirt, not proxmox. No proxmox anywhere in my case. > to serial 0 ? Yes, I removed video devices from machine whatsoever, and did 'set tty com0' in /etc/boot.conf inside the VM > it seemed to work for me ... > I also found that if I changed to the serial console and > I set a custom disk setup, such as > > / offset 2048 with a size of 2G > swap with a size of 4G > and any partition after that (eg / var ) the installer > would hang when copying to disk, > but if I just set defaults autopartion / or just 2 > partitions the installer would not hang... > > once the install was complete I set the display to serial 0 > exclusively then.. > ie use vga to set the boot parameters to use serial 0 as the console > then continue with the installer > shutdown,and modify proxmox guest Display to serial 0 > after that I saw improved stability > > > I hope this helps > Tom Smyth The machines have IIRC automatic partition layout. And even with the changes above, I do get occasional hangs.
