On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
I'm having problems trying to install CentOS as a KVM guest despite following the wikis and howtos.
The problem is that most of the instructions skip the part that happens after virt-install... It seems that something blindingly obvious happens if nothing goes wrong and most instructions continues from the OS installation screen.
However, when I try this, I get a blank console that says "Escape Char is ^]" and doesn't do anything useful.
I've only done text-based installations of CentOS under KVM, so I can't comment on VNC options. Here's an edited form of a standard virt-install script:
virt-install \ --name="VMName" --ram="1024" --vcpus="1" \ --nographics --accelerate \ --os-type="linux" --os-variant="rhel5.4" \ --network="bridge:br0" --mac="54:52:00:12:34:56" \ --disk="path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/VMName.dsk,size=20" \ --location="http://some-mirror/centos/5/os/x86_64" \ --extra-args="console=ttyS0"
As always, double-check to make sure that, e.g., the network option is configured appropriately for your environment.
If you're doing a kickstart installation, the "ks=..." stuff goes within the extra-args option.