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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20090528/16e4cf86/attachment-0006.html>