[virt-tools-list] problems with domain installation

[Cole Robinson]

On 12/11/2009 09:22 AM, Tomas Macek wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Cole Robinson wrote:
> 
>> On 12/11/2009 03:52 AM, Tomas Macek wrote:
>>> I need to run the installation from the command line and not from the X window
>>> interface like virt-manager, but the only thing I see is always the "Escape
>>> character is ^]" as the output.
>>> I've spent a lot of time googling what I'm doing wrong, but the only replies
>>> I've found was "... the vnc access is better, use it..." or that I should
>>> redirect the installation console to serial device - I think I'm doing it with
>>> the "-x console=/dev/ttyS0", so what's wrong?
>>>
>>
>> As far as I know that should work. Is the VM crashing maybe? What
>> happens above after the domain creation, does the console just sit there
>> after 'Escape character is ^]' or does it exit immediately? If it exits,
>> something went wrong.
> 
> Yes, the console does only sit there and does nothing else. The only 
> output from this was one character "?" written with black font with white 
> background (sorry, my english is poor) - it is some special char and this 
> "output" was after about 3 seconds. I was waiting for some other output 
> for some minutes, but nothing else happened. The 
> VM is not crashing IMHO, because I'm trying simultaneously connect using 
> virt-manager (in X window) and it shows, that virtual machine spends some 
> CPU time and memory. I can normally destroy it. And yes - this way I don't 
> see anything, because of the "--nographics", so I'm not absolutely sure, 
> what is going on in the virtual guest.
> 
>> When you say you are unable to connect using virsh console, do you mean
>> it doesn't print anything or the command fails? If it fails, please post
>> the output.
> 
> The only output is in my original post, nothing else.
> 
> Strange is, that this behaviour is simillar to the debian installation 
> over the internet. According to the debian's doc the debian should know 
> "console=/dev/ttyS0" just like fedora, but the result is the same.
> 
> I spent on this 2 days searching the internet and testing (hope) everthing 
> as far as I had invention...
> 

Hmm, I just tried this and reproduced your failure. However, changing
the extra args from '-x console=/dev/ttyS0' to just '-x console=ttyS0'
fixed it for me. Sorry I mentioned the incorrect args on IRC yesterday,
hopefully the above fix helps you out.

- Cole