On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:53:24AM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote: >> > During the build (via a serial console) we get >> > input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input1 >> > running install... >> > running /sbin/loader >> > Sending request for IP information for eth0... >> > Determining host name and domain... >> > Sending request for IP information for eth0... >> > Determining host name and domain... > >> you do this from virt-manager so you can track the graphical outputs >> more fully, since serial console tends to be pretty limited? > > Ah, that helped! I used a graphics console and now it reports a useful > error; my kickstart file for RH5 had mistakenly coded "5.8" into the > paths, rather than using the symlink I maintain. This didn't show in > the text installer, but did when I used the graphics console. So it wasn't the KVM at all, just the kickstart file and a lack of error messages from anaconda.