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?

From: centos-virt-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of gibbe gabba
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 7:02 AM
To: centos-virt@centos.org
Subject: [CentOS-virt] KVM: 'ÿ' character after starting a VM via virt-install

I'm unable to start a virtual machine with KVM.

I'm using Centos 5.4

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:

# 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








Starting install...

Creating storage file...  | 20 GB 00:00

Creating domain... | 0 B 00:00



Connected to domain test




Escape character is ^]

ÿ

the 'ÿ' character appears after a few seconds, then nothing...

Any help is appreciated!