[CentOS-virt] scripted virt-install fails

I was experiencing stalling of CentOS5 VMs boot process on HAL daemon. But
only when checking the output of the console from:
xm console <DomU>
Sshing to the DomU worked just fine. If you have sshd running, try to ssh to
VM.

Tino

2009/5/28 <lists at zfobjects.com>

> I have successfully installed several CentOS 5 VMs on a CentOS 5 Xen
> DOM0 using a local repo and kickstart files with Virt Manager.
>
> Using the same machine and setup, I have tried a scripted install
> using same repos and kickstart file with virt-install. The only
> difference I can see is that with virt-install I'm disabling the
> display (no VNC).
>
> The install goes well but the new VM won't finish booting, it keeps
> stalling at various things. So far I have disabled smartd and
> microcode_ctl in kickstart postinstall script, now it is stalling at
> HAL.
>
> Rather than keep disabling services and retrying, I think it's time to
> ask here what I'm doing wrong ... why does basically the same VM
> install work with Virt Manager but not with virt-install?
>
>     Thanks
>
>
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