I get two errors when doing a fully automated kickstart install with virt- install:

libvir: QEMU error : connect: /var/run/libvirt/qemud-sock: Connection refused libvir: warning : Failed to find the network: Is the daemon running ?

that seems to be harmless and is caused by libvirtd being shut off.

Then I get:

Starting install... libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: Retrieving CentOS... 194 kB 00:00 Retrieving vmlinuz... 2.0 MB 00:00 Retrieving initrd.img... 5.0 MB 00:00 libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: Creating domain... 0 B 00:00 Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect to the console to complete the installation process.

The "GET operation failed:" error seems to be harmless, too, but it happens whether libvirt is running or not. From googling around it looks like this is a pretty standard error. Could this be a bug in virt-install?

Apart from that I notice that the virt-install installation seems to be more ressource hungry than starting a kickstart installation with virt-manager. While I don't recognize much of the virt-manager installation performance-wise, the virt-install installation clearly drains on the CPU, the system reaches 100% CPU utilization during the first one or two minutes and that is noticable at least on the desktop. Do you have the same experience?

Kai