Hi, just curious if anyone else has seen this. I first bumped into this last week:
At this point I can connect via SSH to IP provisioned to the host. But boot takes >10 min or longer to get console to login prompt (!)
Did quick google and just for fun made this tweak:
Subsequent reading suggests this mode is actually not real, and I'm causing it to fail back to more primitive console. (same desired effect really )
Anyhoo. After making this change the horrid little VM now boots up almost instantly, no delay at the [OK] services starting steps.
I have seen this behaviour now on >5 different clean installs of Ubuntu LTS 1204.
In contrast if I stand up a CentOS (6, or even 5 or even 4) KVM VM instance on the same ProxVE host, we don't appear to get any behaviour out of the ordinary. (again using using VirtIO HDD and NIC)
Just wondering if anyone else has bumped into this detail before, and if there is a good:easy:rational cause that is documented:discussed?
Tim
- ProxVE 3.X/latest host or Prox 2.X/latest - same behaviour in either case it seems.
- Install a clean KVM VM with Ubuntu 12.04/64bit/latest ISO as install media (as of Oct-29-13 the ISO in question is called, ubuntu-12.04.3-server-amd64.iso)
- VirtIO disk and NIC
- stock install, minimal, proceeds, fine, reboot at end
- system console reboots .. looks pretty normal .. then sits there forever part-way through the init sequence [OK] messages
- normally if booting smoothly it flies through this in <30 seconds and gets to login prompt
At this point I can connect via SSH to IP provisioned to the host. But boot takes >10 min or longer to get console to login prompt (!)
Did quick google and just for fun made this tweak:
Code:
root@box:~# less /etc/default/grub
..... NOTE THIS BLOCK---------------
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
...
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
# TDC Oct-2013 arrgh
GRUB_GFXMODE=text
Subsequent reading suggests this mode is actually not real, and I'm causing it to fail back to more primitive console. (same desired effect really )
Anyhoo. After making this change the horrid little VM now boots up almost instantly, no delay at the [OK] services starting steps.
I have seen this behaviour now on >5 different clean installs of Ubuntu LTS 1204.
In contrast if I stand up a CentOS (6, or even 5 or even 4) KVM VM instance on the same ProxVE host, we don't appear to get any behaviour out of the ordinary. (again using using VirtIO HDD and NIC)
Just wondering if anyone else has bumped into this detail before, and if there is a good:easy:rational cause that is documented:discussed?
Tim