On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > I'm having problems trying to install CentOS as a KVM guest despite > following the wikis and howtos. > > The problem is that most of the instructions skip the part that > happens after virt-install... It seems that something blindingly > obvious happens if nothing goes wrong and most instructions > continues from the OS installation screen. > > However, when I try this, I get a blank console that says "Escape > Char is ^]" and doesn't do anything useful. I've only done text-based installations of CentOS under KVM, so I can't comment on VNC options. Here's an edited form of a standard virt-install script: virt-install \ --name="VMName" --ram="1024" --vcpus="1" \ --nographics --accelerate \ --os-type="linux" --os-variant="rhel5.4" \ --network="bridge:br0" --mac="54:52:00:12:34:56" \ --disk="path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/VMName.dsk,size=20" \ --location="http://some-mirror/centos/5/os/x86_64" \ --extra-args="console=ttyS0" As always, double-check to make sure that, e.g., the network option is configured appropriately for your environment. If you're doing a kickstart installation, the "ks=..." stuff goes within the extra-args option. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/