Display server install process info in autoinstaller

sipb / homeworld

Cluster management system for the SIPB Hyades project

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Display server install process info in autoinstaller #434

Open celskeggs opened 4 years ago

celskeggs commented 4 years ago

Currently, we don't print anything after "Formatting [disk] [...]" and before the server is installed.

This means:

No output when installation fails
No ability to debug in Jenkins
No idea of installation progress

We should consider printing out useful information during this time -- which probably needs to be parsed out of the installer's output.

cryslith commented 4 years ago

Probably setting DEBIAN_FRONTEND to noninteractive or text in the boot line will lead to better output, both for the purposes of logs and parsing.

It would also be useful to print the command that we use to run qemu, to make it easier to run the same thing manually from the debug shell, as well as the boot line that we input.

celskeggs commented 4 years ago

Huh, I could have sworn that DEBIAN_FRONTEND couldn't be changed in the installer.

Agreed on printing the command; I actually had that in a testing version, but never got around to committing it.