Good morning everyone. This is my first post to this list. I am very new to Linux so please bear with me. Also, English is not my first language so please excuse me if I am unclear.
I am trying to install CentOS Linux operating system in a virtualization setup. I have already built four host machines with CentOS 5.5 and KVM virtualization. I can install fine if I do a manual installation. I am now trying to automate the process. To this goal, I have create multiple LVMs inside my new volume group. The name of the volume group is vmstorage_vg. The problem occurs when I try to run the installation.
I found a script via google:
#!/bin/sh
virt-install \ -n calcnode01 \ -r 1024 \ -f /dev/vmstorage_vg/calcnode01 \ --cdrom=/software/iso/CentOS-5.5_x86_64-boot.iso \ --accelerate \ --vnc \ -x "ks=ftp://192.168.0.101/pub/ks/calcnode01.ks ip=192.168.0.101 netmask=255.255.255.0 dns=192.168.0.20 gateway=192.168.0.1 text console=ttyS0"
When I start this script from the SSH terminal it starts but I cannot see anything being installed. I entered the virsh console and see the calcnode01 entry if I do a list. If I try to connect using virsh I do not see anything. The kickstart was created from the anaconda file created from the manual installation. I enabled the options to create the filesystems.
I think the installation is waiting on some input but I cannot see any console. I have tried with and without the "console=ttyS0" option.
Thank you everyone for your time.
Does virt-manager show anything for the guest when connected to the kvm host?
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On 4 Aug 2010 16:31, "Kevin Chang" kico.chang@gmail.com wrote:
Good morning everyone. This is my first post to this list. I am very new
to
Linux so please bear with me. Also, English is not my first language so please excuse me if I am unclear.
I am trying to install CentOS Linux operating system in a virtualization setup. I have already built four host machines with CentOS 5.5 and KVM virtualization. I can install fine if I do a manual installation. I am now trying to automate the process. To this goal, I have create multiple LVMs inside my new volume group. The name of the volume group is vmstorage_vg. The problem occurs when I try to run the installation.
I found a script via google:
#!/bin/sh
virt-install \ -n calcnode01 \ -r 1024 \ -f /dev/vmstorage_vg/calcnode01 \ --cdrom=/software/iso/CentOS-5.5_x86_64-boot.iso \ --accelerate \ --vnc \ -x "ks=ftp://192.168.0.101/pub/ks/calcnode01.ks ip=192.168.0.101 netmask=255.255.255.0 dns=192.168.0.20 gateway=192.168.0.1 text console=ttyS0"
When I start this script from the SSH terminal it starts but I cannot see anything being installed. I entered the virsh console and see the calcnode01 entry if I do a list. If I try to connect using virsh I do not see anything. The kickstart was created from the anaconda file created
from
the manual installation. I enabled the options to create the filesystems.
I think the installation is waiting on some input but I cannot see any console. I have tried with and without the "console=ttyS0" option.
Thank you everyone for your time.
Am Mittwoch, den 04.08.2010, 11:30 -0400 schrieb Kevin Chang:
I found a script via google:
#!/bin/sh
virt-install \ -n calcnode01 \ -r 1024 \ -f /dev/vmstorage_vg/calcnode01 \ --cdrom=/software/iso/CentOS-5.5_x86_64-boot.iso \ --accelerate \ --vnc \ -x "ks=ftp://192.168.0.101/pub/ks/calcnode01.ks ip=192.168.0.101 netmask=255.255.255.0 dns=192.168.0.20 gateway=192.168.0.1 text console=ttyS0"
When I start this script from the SSH terminal it starts but I cannot see anything being installed. I entered the virsh console and see the calcnode01 entry if I do a list. If I try to connect using virsh I do not see anything. The kickstart was created from the anaconda file created from the manual installation. I enabled the options to create the filesystems.
I think the installation is waiting on some input but I cannot see any console. I have tried with and without the "console=ttyS0" option.
Thank you everyone for your time.
Kevin,
since you use --vnc the console of the vurtual machine is using vnc, you can use virt-manager or virt-viewer to atttach a graphical console.
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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Christoph Maser cmaser@gmx.de wrote:
When I start this script from the SSH terminal it starts but I cannot see anything being installed. I entered the virsh console and see the calcnode01 entry if I do a list. If I try to connect using virsh I do not see anything. The kickstart was created from the anaconda file created from the manual installation. I enabled the options to create the filesystems.
I think the installation is waiting on some input but I cannot see any console. I have tried with and without the "console=ttyS0" option.
Thank you everyone for your time.
Kevin,
since you use --vnc the console of the vurtual machine is using vnc, you can use virt-manager or virt-viewer to atttach a graphical console.
James and Cristoph: Thank you. It appears that it was a combination of the vnc option and virt-manager.
In virt-manager I can see the console boot messages. I do not see the installation itself.
I attached with VNC and then have see the installation.
I will try now removing the vnc directive. To troubleshoot is now easier being able to see what is happening.
Thank you again KC
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Christoph Maser cmaser@gmx.de wrote:
since you use --vnc the console of the vurtual machine is using vnc, you can use virt-manager or virt-viewer to atttach a graphical console.
I was silly and did think that vnc was for the virtual nic.
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