Re: install hangs inside of virtual machine

On Tue, Aug 06, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

> Greetings,
> I'm trying to run an autoyast based installation of SLES11-SP3 inside
> of a KVM based virtual machine (host OS is Fedora19-x86_64, if that
> matters), and it is consistently hanging at:
> Sending dhcp request to eth0
> 
> It sounds quite similar to this bug:
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799496
> 
> however, I'm not installing over NFS at all.  I'm invoking the
> installation from local media, and pulling down all components via
> http.  This is the isolinux 'append' entry that I'm using:
> 
> textmode=1 initrd=sles113_64bit.img
> autoyast=http://172.20.232.152/distros/suse/os/SLES11-SP3/x86_64/autoyastcuda.xml
> install=http://172.20.232.152/distros/suse/os/SLES11-SP3/x86_64

The problem you are experiencing happens before yast gets started. 
It happens during setup of installation environment by linuxrc.

If you use a http-URL for installation, linuxrc needs to set up the
network to be able to access installation. Therefore it sends a
dhcp request for eth0. Why this hangs, I cannot answer. Maybe your
virtual machine is not set up for network connection to your DHCP 
server.

Bye, 
	Thomas Fehr
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