<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Hi Cole,</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">You're quite right, it was a poweroff issue. Well done! Once I realized that it's critical for the domain to end up in "shut off" state in order for virt-install to exit, things all fell into place.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Here's what I ended up with virt-install wise:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div>[root@oel63-virt tmp]# virt-install --name=minimal --ram=512 --vcpus=1 --accelerate --hvm --network network:default --disk=/var/lib/libvirt/images/minimal.img,size=3 --location=<a href="http://192.168.122.1/OracleLinux-R6-U3-Server-x86_64-dvd" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">http://192.168.122.1/OracleLinux-R6-U3-Server-x86_64-dvd</a> --graphics=none --noautoconsole --wait=-1 --noreboot --serial=file,path=/tmp/minimal.log --initrd-inject=/tmp/minimal-ks.cfg '--extra-args=ks=file:/minimal-ks.cfg console=ttyS0' Starting install... Retrieving file .treeinfo... | 3.0 kB <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">00:00</a> ... Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 7.6 MB <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">00:00</a> ... Retrieving file initrd.img... | 58 MB <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5">00:00</a> ... Allocating 'minimal.img' | 3.0 GB <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://7" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">00:00</a> Creating domain... | 0 B <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8">00:00</a> Domain installation still in progress. Waiting for installation to complete. . . . Checking the domain state during installation: [root@oel63-virt tmp]# virsh list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- 52 minimal running It is critical to make sure that the "poweroff" option is specified in Kickstart culminating in logging: </div><div> </div><div>.</div><div>.</div><div>. powering off system Power down. ... so that virt-install automatically exits with:</div><div> . . . Domain has shutdown. Continuing. Domain creation completed. You can restart your domain by running: virsh --connect qemu:///system start minimal [root@oel63-virt tmp]# echo $? 0 ... leaving the domain "shut off" state:</div><div> [root@oel63-virt tmp]# virsh list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- - minimal shut off </div><div> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Thanks for all your help,</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Anthony.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> On Jan 20, 2014, at 6:45 AM, Cole Robinson <<a href="mailto:crobinso@redhat.com">crobinso@redhat.com</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div>On 01/19/2014 05:05 PM, Anthony Shortland wrote: <blockquote type="cite">Hi Cole, </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks for the suggestions. Here's where I'm at now: </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[root@oel63-virt tmp]# virt-install --name=minimal --ram=512 --vcpus=1 </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--accelerate --hvm --network network:default </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--disk=/var/lib/libvirt/images/minimal.img,size=3 </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--location=<a href="http://192.168.122.1/OracleLinux-R6-U3-Server-x86_64-dvd">http://192.168.122.1/OracleLinux-R6-U3-Server-x86_64-dvd</a> --graphics=none </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--noautoconsole --wait=-1 --serial=file,path=/tmp/minimal.log </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">'--extra-args=ks=<a href="http://192.168.122.1/kickstart/minimal-ks.cfg">http://192.168.122.1/kickstart/minimal-ks.cfg</a> console=ttyS0' </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Starting install... </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Retrieving file .treeinfo... </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> | </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">3.0 kB 00:00 <x-apple-data-detectors://5> ... </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Retrieving file vmlinuz... </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> | </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">7.6 MB 00:00 <x-apple-data-detectors://7> ... </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Retrieving file initrd.img... </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> | </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 58 MB 00:00 <x-apple-data-detectors://8> ... </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Allocating 'minimal.img' </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> | </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">3.0 GB 00:00 <x-apple-data-detectors://10> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Creating domain... </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> | </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 0 B 00:00 <x-apple-data-detectors://11> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Domain installation still in progress. Waiting for installation to complete. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">... I added "--serial=file,..." in order to log in the install, which ends as </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">follows: </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">, </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">terminating anaconda...done </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sending termination signals...done </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sending kill signals...Done </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">disabling swap... </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /dev/dm-1 </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">unmounting filesystems... </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /mnt/runtime done </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> disabling /dev/loop0 </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /dev/pts done </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /selinux done </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /mnt/sysimage/boot done </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /mnt/sysimage/dev/pts done </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /mnt/sysimage/dev/shm done </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /mnt/sysimage/dev done </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /mnt/sysimage/proc/bus/usb done </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /mnt/sysimage/proc done </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /mnt/sysimage/sys done </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /mnt/sysimage/selinux done </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /mnt/sysimage done </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">waiting for mdraid sets to become clean... </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">halting system </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">System halted. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">... the new Linux system is halted since I included the "shutdown" </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#shutdown">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#shutdown</a>) option in the </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Kickstart file, but virt-install still does not exit. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">What event signals completion of domain installation? How can it be triggered </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">from within the guest (which has the thread of execution with Kickstart)? Or </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">do I need to wrap all this in a script, set wait=0, track the logged output </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and use some sort of virsh command to signal domain installation completion? </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote> Maybe it's some halt vs poweroff issue? Not sure. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15460754/halt-and-poweroff">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15460754/halt-and-poweroff</a> Try sticking a 'shutdown' at the end of your kickstart? Whatever the issue is, it's unlikely a virt-install or libvirt issue, since they aren't in play if the VM tries to shut itself down. Watching the serial output was only a suggestion if you can't get the VM to shutdown on its own, typically that shouldn't be required. - Cole </div></blockquote></body></html>