Does virt-manager show anything for the guest when connected to the kvm host? Sent from Android Mobile On 4 Aug 2010 16:31, "Kevin Chang" <kico.chang at gmail.com> wrote: > Good morning everyone. This is my first post to this list. I am very new to > Linux so please bear with me. Also, English is not my first language so > please excuse me if I am unclear. > > I am trying to install CentOS Linux operating system in a virtualization > setup. I have already built four host machines with CentOS 5.5 and KVM > virtualization. I can install fine if I do a manual installation. I am now > trying to automate the process. To this goal, I have create multiple LVMs > inside my new volume group. The name of the volume group is vmstorage_vg. > The problem occurs when I try to run the installation. > > I found a script via google: > > > #!/bin/sh > > virt-install \ > -n calcnode01 \ > -r 1024 \ > -f /dev/vmstorage_vg/calcnode01 \ > --cdrom=/software/iso/CentOS-5.5_x86_64-boot.iso \ > --accelerate \ > --vnc \ > -x "ks=ftp://192.168.0.101/pub/ks/calcnode01.ks ip=192.168.0.101 > netmask=255.255.255.0 dns=192.168.0.20 gateway=192.168.0.1 text > console=ttyS0" > > When I start this script from the SSH terminal it starts but I cannot see > anything being installed. I entered the virsh console and see the > calcnode01 entry if I do a list. If I try to connect using virsh I do not > see anything. The kickstart was created from the anaconda file created from > the manual installation. I enabled the options to create the filesystems. > > I think the installation is waiting on some input but I cannot see any > console. I have tried with and without the "console=ttyS0" option. > > Thank you everyone for your time. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100804/5dbc6596/attachment-0005.html>