repos.halvm.org appears to be down

[henrytill]

I am attempting to set up an environment following the instructions in HACKING.md, using Fedora Server 26 in VirtualBox 5.2.0.

I have reached step 3, but repos.halvm.org seems to be down:

[ht@localhost ~]$ sudo dnf install http://repos.halvm.org/fedora-26/x86_64/halvm-yum-repo-26-3.fc26.noarch.rpm
[sudo] password for ht: 
Fedora 26 - x86_64 - Updates                                                                          15 MB/s |  16 MB     00:01    
Fedora 26 - x86_64                                                                                   7.8 MB/s |  53 MB     00:06    
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:04 ago on Sat 28 Oct 2017 09:54:00 AM EDT.
[MIRROR] halvm-yum-repo-26-3.fc26.noarch.rpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for http://repos.halvm.org/fedora-26/x86_64/halvm-yum-repo-26-3.fc26.noarch.rpm [Connection timed out after 120002 milliseconds]
[FAILED] halvm-yum-repo-26-3.fc26.noarch.rpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for http://repos.halvm.org/fedora-26/x86_64/halvm-yum-repo-26-3.fc26.noarch.rpm [Connection timed out after 120002 milliseconds]
Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for http://repos.halvm.org/fedora-26/x86_64/halvm-yum-repo-26-3.fc26.noarch.rpm [Connection timed out after 120002 milliseconds]

Other network operations are working fine inside the VM, and attempting to ping repos.halvm.org from both inside and outside the VM gives no response.

[TomMD]

Our server room has been having heat issues, resulting in some non-essential services being turned off. I'm not positive, but if halvm.org was hosted internally then this is likely the issue.

[acw]

Looks like everything should be back up. As a positive side effect of our AC blowout, your issue prompted me to update our "even-numbered Fedora" build servers from 24 to 26. So there should be new, shiny Fedora 26 RPMs ready to go. I will warn you, however, that I have only built them, not tested them. The "Should Just Word" (tm, famous last work, etc.), though.

[henrytill]

@acw: thanks! I will give the new 26 RPMs a test and see how they go.

I did create a VM with the "stock" Xen and succeeded in running several of the examples. There were a few little configuration bits I had to do to get Xen to behave nicely (for example, getting xenconsoled.service to launch and connect to xenstored required me to relax the SELinux policy on Fedora 26 to "permissive").

Do you think writing these things down somewhere in/around this repo is the kind of thing that would be helpful for prospective HaLVM users/contributors?

[acw]

Absolutely! Indeed, if you'd be interested, updating HACKING.md in any places you think would be helpful would be great.

I'm going to close this ticket, since repos.halvm.org seems to be working, but feel free to open a new one with any other issues you find.