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Virtual computer hangs during boot (Hyper-V)

Source: microsoft.public.virtualserver
Sent: 03/30/2009
From: Ebipower
Message:

Hi all,

I've have a strange problem. I've created a new virtual computer on my
hyper-v-system and want to install OpenSuSE 10.3 (same problem on OpenSuSE 11
and Debian Lenny). I've downloaded the Netinstall ISO. After booting this
image, the boot process starts fine, but after displaying the boot message it
seems, that the process hangs. Hyper-V-Manager shows me a cpu usage of 7%.

I have a Xeon 2-Processors dual core system with 16GB of memory. Currently I
have 2 virtual machines running, one with Windows Server 2008 and one with
Linux from Scratch. 6,51GB of memory is used and the cpu-using is lower than
5%.

Any hints?

Regards
Wolfgang Ebert

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Re: Virtual computer hangs during boot (Hyper-V)

Sent: 03/30/2009
From: Roger Hunen <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Ebipower wrote:

Nice system :-)

>
> Any hints?

Is your Linux guest 32-bit AND do you have more than 1 processor configured
for this guest? If so, try configuring just 1 processor.

Regards,
-Roger

--
E-mail: (email address - cut out)
Home: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rhunen
ADSL: http://adsl.hunen.net

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> I've have a strange problem. I've created a new virtual computer on my
> hyper-v-system and want to install OpenSuSE 10.3 (same problem on OpenSuSE 11
> and Debian Lenny). I've downloaded the Netinstall ISO. After booting this
> image, the boot process starts fine, but after displaying the boot message it
> seems, that the process hangs. Hyper-V-Manager shows me a cpu usage of 7%.
>
> I have a Xeon 2-Processors dual core system with 16GB of memory.
> Currently I
> have 2 virtual machines running, one with Windows Server 2008 and one with
> Linux from Scratch. 6,51GB of memory is used and the cpu-using is lower than
> 5%.
>
> Regards
> Wolfgang Ebert

Re: Virtual computer hangs during boot (Hyper-V)

Sent: 04/02/2009
From: Ebipower
Message:

>> Ebipower wrote:

Thx ;)

I'm trying both: 32 and 64-Bit. And only 1 processor. There's no need for
more ;) It's frustrating :(

Wolfgang

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>> > I've have a strange problem. I've created a new virtual computer on my
>> > hyper-v-system and want to install OpenSuSE 10.3 (same problem on >OpenSuSE 11
>> > and Debian Lenny). I've downloaded the Netinstall ISO. After booting this
>> > image, the boot process starts fine, but after displaying the boot message it
>> > seems, that the process hangs. Hyper-V-Manager shows me a cpu usage of 7%.
> >
> > I have a Xeon 2-Processors dual core system with 16GB of memory.
>
> Nice system :-)
>
> > Currently I
> > have 2 virtual machines running, one with Windows Server 2008 and one with
> > Linux from Scratch. 6,51GB of memory is used and the cpu-using is lower than
> > 5%.
> >
> > Any hints?
>
> Is your Linux guest 32-bit AND do you have more than 1 processor configured
> for this guest? If so, try configuring just 1 processor.
>
> Regards,
> -Roger
>
> >
> > Regards
> > Wolfgang Ebert
>
>
> --
> E-mail: (email address - cut out)
> Home: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rhunen
> ADSL: http://adsl.hunen.net
>

Re: Virtual computer hangs during boot (Hyper-V)

Sent: 04/03/2009
From: Roger Hunen <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Ebipower wrote:

I can imagine... Other than the above I have no suggestions. Sorry for that.

Regards,
-Roger
--
E-mail: (email address - cut out)
Home: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rhunen
ADSL: http://adsl.hunen.net

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>> Is your Linux guest 32-bit AND do you have more than 1 processor configured
>> for this guest? If so, try configuring just 1 processor.
>
> I'm trying both: 32 and 64-Bit. And only 1 processor. There's no need for
> more ;) It's frustrating :(

Re: Virtual computer hangs during boot (Hyper-V)

Sent: 04/03/2009
From: Roger Hunen <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Roger Hunen wrote:

Actually, I may have another long shot...

During various Debian Etch and Lenny installs on Hyper-V
I have experienced what looked like hangs at first sight.
These happened at various stages of the installation, though
I have never seen them happen right after the installer boot
message. I all cases the install would automagically proceed
after a long time (up to 30[!!] minutes).

==> What happens if you just let it sit and wait?

My suspicion is that there are compatibility issues with the
BIOS that Microsoft ships/emulates with Hyper-V.
One thing that I remember to have read on some Ubuntu forum,
is that there may be kernel boot issues if USB keyboard support
is enabled in the BIOS. The workaround on a physical machine
was to disable USB keyboard support in the BIOS. Unfortunately
the only BIOS settings that you can tweak in Hyper-V are the
boot device order and the numlock state :(

Regards,
-Roger
--
E-mail: (email address - cut out)
Home: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rhunen
ADSL: http://adsl.hunen.net

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> Other than the above I have no suggestions.

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