The screen dump sadly isn't very useful. It would be more useful to boot with kmdb and break into the kernel and look at a stack backtrack. If you can do that. Boot with -k then send it shift-f1 and see if you get the debugger prompt. If you do try to capture $c
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:11 PM, Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry, > > actually it's not a register dump. > > Here I attached a screenshot of the hanging boot. > > Any idea? > > Gabriele > > > > Da: Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]> > A: [email protected] > Data: 23 settembre 2015 23.05.50 CEST > Oggetto: Re: [discuss] illumos hosting offerings > > > I had some more deep experimentation with the guys at CloudSigma and their > kvm infrastructure. > > They found that leaving the machine running from 15mins to 2hrs may lead to > the installer to start at some point. > Then they installed one, and delivered the installed disk to my VM, so I > could boot and see. > > What happens is the same: it starts grub, then you get the kernel banner, and > nothing more. > > I tried running boot with -v , found myslef with the black screen after some > minutes, showing a dump of the registers, > ending with the size of the memory, nothing more after... > > Any idea where I can find the issue? What may be hanging the VM? Looks like > it's actually just "thinking" for a lot of time, > but you can't know how much time... > > Gabriele > > > > > Da: Peter Tribble <[email protected]> > A: discuss <[email protected]> > Data: 22 settembre 2015 16.26.57 CEST > Oggetto: Re: [discuss] illumos hosting offerings > > > > >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks, I found CloudSigma, Switzerland, seems a good option. >> They opened a trial account for me, but I had problem booting the CD. >> First time it worked, but I had no virtio support, so I had to stop and >> restart with HD in ide mode. >> No way to run it anymore, in any way, not even starting from scratch in >> virtio mode. >> >> Is there any particular option I must let them know to allow kvm run illumos >> guests? > > I've only successfully installed in IDE mode, the virtio mode seems to upset > the > live boot. (I think it's having trouble in the device discovery phase when > it's trying > to find the device where solaris.zlib lives, I need to find time to go back > and look > at this in more detail.) But my experience with Bytemark is that apart from > that it > just worked. >> Gabriele >> >> >> >> Da: Peter Tribble <[email protected]> >> A: discuss <[email protected]> >> Data: 22 settembre 2015 11.19.46 CEST >> Oggetto: Re: [discuss] illumos hosting offerings >> >> >> >> >>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> looks like impossible to find a hosting provider to run an illumos distro >>> of my own on their virtualization infrastructure. >>> Everybody wants you to run their windows or linux machines. >>> I need some virtualized XStreamOS machines running around, but I can't find >>> one allowing me to use my own iso install. >>> >>> Why? >>> Do you have any durable solution to this (a part from housing your own >>> hardware, something we already do...)? >> >> There are a few. I've run both OmniOS and Tribblix on Bytemark >> >> https://www.bytemark.co.uk/ >> >> Specifically the page >> >> https://www.bytemark.co.uk/hosting/bigv/ >> >> and their support is really good too. (They love people who run "unusual" >> things. >> When running Tribblix I found a bug in their DHCP implementation and they >> just >> got straight back to me and fixed it, and were delighted I had found it.) >> >> There are a number of other companies set up the same way, exposing raw >> qemu/KVM, which I've heard good things about but haven't tried personally. >> Eg. >> >> Vultr >> >> https://www.vultr.com/features/ >> >> If you could create an XStreamOS dataset for SmartOS, then you could >> use presumably Joyent or another SDC provider such as vrocket.io >> >> >> -- >> -Peter Tribble >> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > > > > -- > -Peter Tribble > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > illumos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription > <kvm-xstreamos-boot-hang.png> ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
