Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox

scottalanmiller

Attempting it with KVM.

triple9

@scottalanmiller maybe this can help https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/517325-Opensuse-Tumbleweed-won-t-start-on-Virtualbox

scottalanmiller

And no luck on KVM, it just freezes. Never gets to the point that it does anything. Just makes the bar across the bottom.

dafyre

Did you ever go back and try it VirtualBox with NAT mode for the network adapter?

triple9

VirtualBox 5.1.18 on Win 7, installed Tumbleweed, no problems at all.
Used both NET-x86_64-Snapshot20170320 and DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20170320, bridge and NAT mode.

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

And no luck on KVM, it just freezes. Never gets to the point that it does anything. Just makes the bar across the bottom.

It doesn't freeze. I just ran the net installer. It took around 1-2 minutes after the bars went the whole way to bring up another screen on my desktop with 2GB and 1 core.

I ran it on my server and gave it 8 GB and 2 cores and it sped it up a little. That installer just seems really slow.

mlnews

@stacksofplates said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

@scottalanmiller said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

And no luck on KVM, it just freezes. Never gets to the point that it does anything. Just makes the bar across the bottom.

It doesn't freeze. I just ran the net installer. It took around 1-2 minutes after the bars went the whole way to bring up another screen on my desktop with 2GB and 1 core.

I ran it on my server and gave it 8 GB and 2 cores and it sped it up a little. That installer just seems really slow.

I gave it several hours.

stacksofplates

@mlnews said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

@stacksofplates said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

@scottalanmiller said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

And no luck on KVM, it just freezes. Never gets to the point that it does anything. Just makes the bar across the bottom.

It doesn't freeze. I just ran the net installer. It took around 1-2 minutes after the bars went the whole way to bring up another screen on my desktop with 2GB and 1 core.

I ran it on my server and gave it 8 GB and 2 cores and it sped it up a little. That installer just seems really slow.

I gave it several hours.

Not sure then. It's installing right now from the net install media.

scottalanmiller

@stacksofplates said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

@mlnews said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

@stacksofplates said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

@scottalanmiller said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

And no luck on KVM, it just freezes. Never gets to the point that it does anything. Just makes the bar across the bottom.

It doesn't freeze. I just ran the net installer. It took around 1-2 minutes after the bars went the whole way to bring up another screen on my desktop with 2GB and 1 core.

I ran it on my server and gave it 8 GB and 2 cores and it sped it up a little. That installer just seems really slow.

I gave it several hours.

Not sure then. It's installing right now from the net install media.

Maybe I have a bad ISO. Doesn't act like that though.

mlnews

I did try Fedora 25 on KVM and that installed beautifully.

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

@stacksofplates said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

@mlnews said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

@stacksofplates said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

@scottalanmiller said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

And no luck on KVM, it just freezes. Never gets to the point that it does anything. Just makes the bar across the bottom.

It doesn't freeze. I just ran the net installer. It took around 1-2 minutes after the bars went the whole way to bring up another screen on my desktop with 2GB and 1 core.

I ran it on my server and gave it 8 GB and 2 cores and it sped it up a little. That installer just seems really slow.

I gave it several hours.

Not sure then. It's installing right now from the net install media.

Maybe I have a bad ISO. Doesn't act like that though.

Ya not sure. It took a while and a couple packages failed and had to retry but it's running.

0_1490216403309_Screenshot_tumbleweed_2017-03-22_16:59:19.png

scottalanmiller

This is where I see it stopping on KVM.

0_1490218971156_Screenshot from 2017-03-22 22-42-26.png

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said in Having Problems Installing openSuse Tumbleweed on VirtualBox:

This is where I see it stopping on KVM.

Hmm. Do you get the same if you use macvtap over your NIC instead of the virtual bridge?

matteo nunziati

trying to install on debian stable with KVM using NAT, 1GB ram, 1CPU, 8GB disk
w/ openSUSE-Tumbleweed-NET-x86_64-Snapshot20170320-Media.iso

it is loading with the plymouth bar going on...
installer is autoupdating (C00l)... system is probed
checked additional on line repo setup date/language blabla
default partition ok
eula blablabla

HEY we are stalling!!! please, wait... no OK ready to go!

setup user and root passwords...
confirmed installation, system partitioning, packages installing. SO FAR SO GOOD HERE!

@scottalanmiller , try simplifying VM layout.

mlnews

It's about as simple as it can get right now. Just the most basic install. Text mode.

stacksofplates

If you do get it running in KVM, it's going to default to 16MB of video memory, which is not enough for KDE usually. Virt-Manager doesn't give you a way to edit the VGA memory. You can edit the vgamem section with virsh edit <domain>.

scottalanmiller

So I stopped using the text install and went to full graphical and... it started working. WTF