[CentOS-virt] KVM: 'ÿ' character after starting a VM via virt-install

[gibbe gabba]

The hardware is DELL PowerEdge R210 Quad Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3430  @
2.40GHz (/proc/cpuinfo).

I installed KVM with .RPMs after installing the system with a base Centos
5.4 installation (server).
yum install kvm
yum install virt-install

the kvm and kvm_intel modules are loaded. Also HyperThreading is available
(enabled in BIOS), so KVM isn't complaining about that.

I've tried following Linux distros:

- Centos 5.4
- Fedora 12
- Ubuntu 10
- Sipcat 1.3

All of them have the same problem. I tried both installing from a CD ISO and
from http repositories.


On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:53 PM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:

>  Just curious as to what hardware you're running it on. And when you say
> you've installed the necessary rpms, does this mean you installed KVM by
> hand after the install, or through the installer when you first installed
> it?
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> *From:* centos-virt-bounces at centos.org [mailto:
> centos-virt-bounces at centos.org] *On Behalf Of *gibbe gabba
> *Sent:* Monday, April 26, 2010 7:02 AM
> *To:* centos-virt at centos.org
> *Subject:* [CentOS-virt] KVM: 'ÿ' character after starting a VM via
> virt-install
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> I'm unable to start a virtual machine with KVM.
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> I'm using Centos 5.4
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> I have installed all necessary rpms (to my knowledge), but as you can see
> from the output (below), the system does not boot the CD-ROM. It just sits
> there doing nothing:
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> # virt-install --prompt
>
> Would you like to use KVM acceleration? (yes or no) yes
>  What is the name of your virtual machine? test
>
>  How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 1024
>
>  What would you like to use as the disk (file path)? /var/lib/libvirt/images/test.img
>  How large would you like the disk (/var/lib/libvirt/images/test.img) to be (in gigabytes)? 20
>
>  What is the install CD-ROM/ISO or URL? /root/CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-1of6.iso
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> Starting install...
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> Creating storage file...                                          |  20 GB     00:00
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> Creating domain...                                                |    0 B     00:00
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> Connected to domain test
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> Escape character is ^]
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> ÿ
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> the 'ÿ' character appears after a few seconds, then nothing...
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> Any help is appreciated!
>
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