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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:12:28AM -0800, Micheal Waltz wrote:
> 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.

First of all, when doing an install, you can't actually have the
guest reboot at completion. The initial guest configuration for
launching the installer is different, from the configuration for
launching it post-boot. Thus virt-install "fakes" the reboot
by waiting for the guest to exit, and then manually restarts
it.  By when you add  --noautoconsole this won't happen. To
get virt-install to hang around, either remove that option, or
add '--wait'

Regards,
Daniel
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