Xen PV Guest VM is not coming up on Ubuntu 12.04: Bad archive.

Xen PV Guest VM is not coming up on Ubuntu 12.04: Bad archive.

[Sourav Saha]

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Hi,

I have installed Xen on Ubuntu 12.04 as per
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen instructions and created the
volume-group, logical & physical volume.

Changed the /etc/network/interfaces file to do the network configuration
and VM config file.

But when it asked me to choose a mirror of the ubuntu archive during
installation, I selected United States and got the below error(bad archive).

screen-shot 1:
-----------------------
┌──────────────┤ [!] Choose a mirror of the Ubuntu archive ├──────────────┐
  │
│
  │ Please select an Ubuntu archive mirror. You should use a mirror in
│
  │ your country or region if you do not know which mirror has the best
│
  │ Internet connection to you.
│
  │
│
  │ Usually, <your country code>.archive.ubuntu.com is a good choice.
│
  │
│
  │ Ubuntu archive mirror:
│
  │
│
  │                        us.archive.ubuntu.com
│
  │
│
  │     <Go Back>
│
  │
│

└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

screen-shot 2:
----------------------
┌────────────┤ [!!] Choose a mirror of the Ubuntu archive ├─────────────┐
   │                                                                       │
   │                          Bad archive mirror                           │
   │ An error has been detected while trying to use the specified Ubuntu   │
   │ archive mirror.                                                       │
   │                                                                       │
   │ Possible reasons for the error are: incorrect mirror specified;       │
   │ mirror is not available (possibly due to an unreliable network        │
   │ connection); mirror is broken (for example because an invalid Release │
   │ file was found); mirror does not support the correct Ubuntu version.  │
   │                                                                       │
   │ Additional details may be available in /var/log/syslog or on virtual  │
   │ console 4.                                                            │
   │                                                                       │
   │ Please check the specified mirror or try a different one.             │
   │                                                                       │
   │     <Go Back>                                          <Continue>     │
   │                                                                       │
   └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘


I tried for other mirrors also but blocked in same state. Not able to find
the root cause of this and how to solve this, hope my network config is
fine.

Want to participate in Xen project but blocked in this state badly :(

Thanks,
Sourav Saha

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Re: Xen PV Guest VM is not coming up on Ubuntu 12.04: Bad archive.

[Ian Campbell]

On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 17:31 +0530, Sourav Saha wrote:

> But when it asked me to choose a mirror of the ubuntu archive during
> installation, I selected United States and got the below error(bad
> archive).

I reckon this is either an error with the mirror you are using or with
the Ubuntu installer itself. In any case it seems likely given the
information presented so far that this is not a Xen *development* issue.
Please take this to the relevant user list -- probably Ubuntu's in the
first instance and if they determine this is a Xen related issue then
the Xen user list would be appropriate.

When you take this to the user list you will probably want to do as the
dialog suggests and investigate the content of /var/log/syslog.

Thanks,
Ian.