The hardware is DELL PowerEdge R210 Quad Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3430 @ 2.40GHz (/proc/cpuinfo). I installed KVM with .RPMs after installing the system with a base Centos 5.4 installation (server). yum install kvm yum install virt-install the kvm and kvm_intel modules are loaded. Also HyperThreading is available (enabled in BIOS), so KVM isn't complaining about that. I've tried following Linux distros: - Centos 5.4 - Fedora 12 - Ubuntu 10 - Sipcat 1.3 All of them have the same problem. I tried both installing from a CD ISO and from http repositories. On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:53 PM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote: > 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 at centos.org [mailto: > centos-virt-bounces at centos.org] *On Behalf Of *gibbe gabba > *Sent:* Monday, April 26, 2010 7:02 AM > *To:* centos-virt at 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! > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20100428/9e19e720/attachment-0006.html>