stone circle
October 13th, 2015, 09:11 PM
Hi,
Has anyone managed to install Lubuntu (14.04.3) in Xenserver with disk encryption? I initially got an "unsafe swap file" error in the install GUI, which is a known issue - workaround is to install using the "Alternate" boot image (http://askubuntu.com/questions/393418/unsafe-swap-space-detected), which seemed to then install fine. However, during boot, the VM fails to prompt for the LUKS decrypt password, and just freezes on the Citrix POST screen below.
http://brendanh.com/13-10-2015210239.png
I'm ticking the Encrypt the whole Lubuntu installation and Use LVM boxes. I expect some Grub gymnastics are necessary because the normal /dev/sda# file system is replaced by /dev/xvda# notation in XenServer. Ubuntu 14.04 installs fine on an encrypted disk in Xen, so I doubt it'll take much engineering to get Lubuntu working likewise.
I've tried booting from the Lubuntu Live ISO, choosing "Rescue a broken system" and "Install the GRUB boot loader" to no avail. Through the same means I can mount the encrypted file system (device: /dev/<VM NAME>-vg/root), but I'm no grub expert. Is there a log that'll help me gain more info? dmesg isn't written to. The /boot file system is /dev/xvda1 which is flagged bootable in fdisk.
Many thanks
Has anyone managed to install Lubuntu (14.04.3) in Xenserver with disk encryption? I initially got an "unsafe swap file" error in the install GUI, which is a known issue - workaround is to install using the "Alternate" boot image (http://askubuntu.com/questions/393418/unsafe-swap-space-detected), which seemed to then install fine. However, during boot, the VM fails to prompt for the LUKS decrypt password, and just freezes on the Citrix POST screen below.
http://brendanh.com/13-10-2015210239.png
I'm ticking the Encrypt the whole Lubuntu installation and Use LVM boxes. I expect some Grub gymnastics are necessary because the normal /dev/sda# file system is replaced by /dev/xvda# notation in XenServer. Ubuntu 14.04 installs fine on an encrypted disk in Xen, so I doubt it'll take much engineering to get Lubuntu working likewise.
I've tried booting from the Lubuntu Live ISO, choosing "Rescue a broken system" and "Install the GRUB boot loader" to no avail. Through the same means I can mount the encrypted file system (device: /dev/<VM NAME>-vg/root), but I'm no grub expert. Is there a log that'll help me gain more info? dmesg isn't written to. The /boot file system is /dev/xvda1 which is flagged bootable in fdisk.
Many thanks