Hi all,
I've started playing with kvm on CentOS 5.5, with not much success so far. In a nutshell, I have the same problem as http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2010-April/001854.html
I followed the RHEL5 virtualization guide to set up a bridge interface br0, and then used virt-install (rather than virt-manager - I like automation) to set up the vm. It hangs at some point. The command line is slightly modified from the one I was using with xen. Running it with -d shows that the correct hypervisor is used and the network install source is found. Otherwise, I'm fresh out of ideas.
# lsmod|grep kvm kvm_intel 86920 0 kvm 226208 2 ksm,kvm_intel # uname -a Linux x3250 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 13 13:08:30 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # virt-install -r 512 -n test -f /dev/vol0/lvol4 --nographics --os-type=linux --os-variant=rhel5.4 --accelerate -w bridge:br0 -l http://centos/centos/x86_64 -x ks=http://centos/centos/kickstart/ks.test.cfg -m 00:16:3e:30:4d:80
Starting install... Retrieving file .treeinfo... | 417 B 00:00 Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 1.9 MB 00:00 Retrieving file initrd.img... | 7.7 MB 00:00 Creating domain... | 0 B 00:00 Connected to domain test Escape character is ^]
--------------------------------------------------------------- This message and any attachments may contain Cypress (or its subsidiaries) confidential information. If it has been received in error, please advise the sender and immediately delete this message. ---------------------------------------------------------------