On 06/03/13 04:50, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 03/06/2013 03:10 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> Also, the ALT key doesn't work with the vnc viewer, so I can't easily >> switch virtual consoles, and the VNC viewer is extremely slow, it would >> be much better to use a `xm console' style text interface for the installer. >> > Hi, > > I'm not sure how to reply to the other things you wrote, but for the > above, why don't you use "xe console"? It works pretty well for the > Debian installer. I never used VNC for installing a Debian, as it's too > slow, as you said. >
A lot of the wiki pages say that there is no console and that VNC has to be used, e.g. http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Cloud_Platform:_Access_to_VM_console suggests that it is necessary to make some hack to access the console using the xl console tool. So I simply didn't realise that xe console exists - I've just tried it now and I can confirm it is working. I found that I can press F8 to get a virtual ALT key in VNC, and using another vnc client (xvnc4viewer) was faster. In the end, I managed to do a successful install from ISO image as HVM rather than PV. I then tried to convert from HVM to PV by doing this: xe vm-param-set HVM-boot-policy="" uuid=MY_UUID xe vm-param-set PV-bootloader="pygrub" uuid=MY_UUID The domU boots as a PV, but the login prompt is never displayed. I can view the console boot messages with VNC, but no login prompt appears in the console. The machine is otherwise working fine and can't be accessed with an ssh login. I think this has something to do with inittab and the terminal device names changing. I subsequently found that the original error from Debian installer, invalid network mirror, was really due to a DNS networking issue in the new environment. However, the DI error message was so vague that I had no idea what was wrong, so it is probably a DI bug rather than an XCP bug. I'm going to try another wheezy/PV/console install later today or tomorrow. Some new problems discovered during the HVM install: - the README.Debian doesn't give the right info about installing from an ISO, I'll provide a separate bug report with a suggested fix - creating a second vif for the HVM instance made it unbootable, with some vague error from qemu-dm. I'll also open a separate bug report about that, because I've seen it with a Windows HVM too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org