I'm unable to start a virtual machine with KVM.<br><br>I'm using Centos
5.4<br><br>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:<br><br><div><code></code><pre># virt-install --prompt<br>Would you like to use KVM acceleration? (yes or no) yes<br> What is the name of your virtual machine? test<br><br> How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 1024<br>
What would you like to use as the disk (file path)? /var/lib/libvirt/images/test.img<br> How large would you like the disk (/var/lib/libvirt/images/test.img) to be (in gigabytes)? 20<br><br> What is the install CD-ROM/ISO or URL? /root/CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-1of6.iso<br>
<br><br>Starting install...<br>Creating storage file... | 20 GB 00:00<br>Creating domain... | 0 B 00:00<br><br>Connected to domain test<br>
Escape character is ^]<br>ÿ<br></pre></div><br>the
'ÿ' character appears after a few seconds, then
nothing... <img src="https://www.centos.org/uploads/smil3dbd4d75edb5e.gif" alt=""> <br><br>Any
help is appreciated!