Bug#951356: marked as done (debian-installer: buster install hangs in a virtual machine)
Your message dated Sat, 15 Feb 2020 12:16:30 +0000
with message-id <20200215121630.GA21027@tack.einval.com>
and subject line Re: Bug#951356: virtual disk was allocated with -f qcow
has caused the Debian Bug report #951356,
regarding debian-installer: buster install hangs in a virtual machine
to be marked as done.
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Package: debian-installer
Version: buster
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
Attempted to install debian 10.3 in a virtual machine with a Ubuntu 19.10 host
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Tries to install under a virt-manager virtual machine
* What was the outcome of this action?
Hang during file system formatting.
http://tjcw.freeshell.org/buster-install/inst-hang.png
http://tjcw.freeshell.org/buster-install/inst-error.png
anr 2 screenshots of the hung install
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Install should complete and result in a viable debian buster system.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers eoan-updates
APT policy: (500, 'eoan-updates'), (500, 'eoan-security'), (500, 'eoan'), (100, 'eoan-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-29-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 11:00:17AM +0000, Chris Ward wrote:
>I have just noticed that the virtual disk for the system was allocated with
>
>qemu-img create -f qcow Debian10.qcow 200G
>
>where the intended allocation would be with
>
>qemu-img create -f qcow2 Debian10.qcow2 200G
>
>When I allocated the disk in the intended way, formatting proceeded much
>faster. This bug can be closed as 'user error'.
Done. Thanks for getting back to us!
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