I'm trying to set up a fully-virtualised CentOS 3.9 guest under 5.3 using kickstart. This doesn't work at all with a text-only install:

virt-install -r 384 -n $host -f $dev -v \ -l $loc \ -x ks=http://$kssrv/centos3.ks \ -m $mac --nographics

The installer just sits there and hangs after creating the domain.

# virt-install ...

Starting install... Creating domain... | 0 B 00:00

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I get better results with a graphical install ( s/--nographics/--vnc/), but the kickstart portion of it doesn't work - the installer stops at the boot prompt. Specifying the kickstart option manually on the boot prompt kicks off a non-interactive install and creates a working guest. So far so good.

1. I presume I'm running into CentOS bug 2975/RH bug 448006, as my workaround is identical. Is there any possible workaround so that I don't need to enter the ks file url at the boot prompt? Are there any alternative boot files/images etc. I could specify? 2. xm console doesn't work

# xm create host -c Using config file "./host". Started domain host

xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory #

I've tried "console=xvc0" on the grub kernel line, no joy. Even after creating the device manually. Any advice?