[virt-tools-list] virt-install doesn't reboot rhel6/7 VMs after install

[Digimer]

On 29/07/14 10:36 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 07/28/2014 12:55 PM, Digimer wrote:
>> On 28/07/14 12:02 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>> On 07/28/2014 11:37 AM, Digimer wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>     I've noticed that, for reasons I am not entirely sure of (though may exist
>>>> and be valid), newly provisioned EL6 and EL7 VMs stay off after pressing
>>>> "reboot" at the end of the OS install (--os-variant rhel*). I've seen this
>>>> behaviour on RHEL/CentOS 6.x and various recent Fedoras. Note that when I
>>>> install other OSes, the VM reboots properly.
>>>>
>>>>     Why would this be? Is this designed behaviour? Installing the same on
>>>> bare-iron nodes reboots properly.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The VM should be restarting... can you show an example command line and full
>>> virt-install --debug output? Make sure you aren't passing --noreboot or --wait
>>> timeout that is expiring.
>>>
>>> The way it's supposed to work is that the VM fully shuts down, virt-install
>>> changes the VM configuration to boot off the now installed disk, and restarts
>>> the VM. It does this by telling VM to shutdown rather than perform a soft
>>> reboot with <on_reboot>destroy</on_reboot> in the VM XML. It does this for all
>>> VM installs regardless of the OS.
>>>
>>> When the VM shuts down after install, virt-install should update the config,
>>> restart the VM, and exit. But clearly that's failing here
>>>
>>> - Cole
>>
>> Here is an example install which showed the problem. It is very similar to how
>> I do all my EL6/EL7 installs (save for sometimes installing from PXE/http):
>>
>> virt-install --connect qemu:///system \
>>    --name an-a03n01 \
>>    --ram 2048 \
>>    --arch x86_64 \
>>    --vcpus 2 \
>>    --cdrom /mnt/usb/VMs/files/CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-Everything.iso \
>>    --os-variant rhel7 \
>>    --network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \
>>    --network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \
>>    --network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \
>>    --network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \
>>    --network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \
>>    --network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \
>>    --disk path=/mnt/usb/VMs/images/an-a03n01.img,bus=virtio,size=40 \
>>    --graphics vnc
>>
>
> I just tried a centos 7 install from cdrom with a nearly identical command
> line using stock f20 host, and virt-install rebooted the guest correctly at
> the end of the VM install. So you'll need to provide the virt-install --debug
> output of a failing invocation so I can see what's going wrong
>
> Thanks,
> Cole

OK, I will try to get that to you later today or tomorrow. Thanks!

digimer

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