[virt-tools-list] virt-install not rebooting guest after install

Micheal Waltz mwaltz at qualcomm.com
Mon Nov 28 19:12:28 UTC 2011


When installing RHEL guests via PXE/kickstart with virt-install the OS 
installs but then the guest is powered off.

Expected behaviour is for guest to reboot itself to finish the install.

Environment:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago)
Linux ucm-buildhost 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 10 
15:42:40 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Packages:
libvirt-python-0.8.7-18.el6.x86_64
libvirt-client-0.8.7-18.el6.x86_64
libvirt-devel-0.8.7-18.el6.x86_64
libvirt-0.8.7-18.el6.x86_64

command line:
virt-install --name=rhel-56-i686 --arch=i686 --vcpus=1 --ram=1024 
--os-type=linux --os-variant=rhel5.4 --disk 
/local/mnt/workspace/images/rhel-56-i686.qcow2,format=qcow2,cache=writeback 
--network=bridge:br0,mac=52:54:00:00:00:b7 --vnc --pxe --noautoconsole

No change when using the --noapic and --noacpi options.

Identical PXE/kickstart configuration reboots after install on physical 
hardware an VMware guests.

The correct kickstart line "reboot" is present.

Removing --noautoconsole has no effect.

Have not tried RHEL 6.2 beta.

I have a case open with Red Hat on this as well but wanted to query the 
virt-tools list as well if anyone else has seen this issue, has a 
workaround, of it this should be filed as a bug.

-- 
Micheal Waltz
Unix Configuration Management
Qualcomm Inc.




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