[CentOS] CentOS 7 regression, can not take a KVM qcow2, convert it and boot it on ESXi...

[Martinx - ジェームズ]

On 4 February 2016 at 06:58, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote:
>
>> My last try was, during Packer build, to append "add_drivers+="
>> sd_mod" to /etc/dracut.conf and re-building initramdisk by running
>> "dracut -f". However, it does not boot either (on ESXi)!
>>
>> I can still boot using Rescue mode on VMWare, then, I can see that
>> sd_mod is inside of initramfs as expected (lsinitrd FTW) but, dracut
>> does not load it! I tried "force_drivers+=" sd_mod", doesn't work
>> too...
>>
>> Weird is that, while during Rescue, if I run "dracut -f" again, then,
>> it works! Normal boot proceeds... But this is unacceptable, because I
>> can not ship a half-broken VMDK and tell customers to first boot on
>> Rescue, run "dracut -f" and then, use the system.
>>
>> So, why the heck the "dracut -f" executed when as a KVM guest have no
>> effect for later ESXi usage?
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> I really appreciate any help!
>
>
> Is this possible the hostonly option in dracut causing fun?
>
> "On RHEL-7 the hostonly mode is the default mode. Generic "non-hostonly"
>  images are created, if the dracut-config-generic rpm is installed.  The
>  rescue kernel entry in the bootloader menu is also a generic image."
>
> jh

You're the man!!! Thank you so much!! YAY!!

I need to install the package "dracut-config-generic" during Packer
build, which sets "hostonly=no" and, voialá!  :-D

Thank you again!

Cheers!
Thiago