[fedora-virt] question on virt-install (and partly anaconda)

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

Hi,

I run something like this, for un-attended automated guest installs.
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#!/bin/bash

domname=yellow
location=http://10.65.x.x/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/x86_64/os/
vmimage="/var/lib/libvirt/images/$domname.img"

echo "Creating domain $domname"
echo "Image is here  $vmimage"
echo "Location of the OS sources $location"

virt-install --connect=qemu:///system \
    --network=bridge:br0 \
    --extra-args="ks=http://10.65.y.y/fedora-minimal.ks console=tty0
console=ttyS0,9600" \
    --name $domname \
    --file=$vmimage \
    --file-size=8 \
    --ram 1024 \
    --accelerate \
    --nonsparse \
    --location=$location \
============================================================================================
now here,

-- once the install is finished and guest reboots, a console does
/not/ show up. Because, as the
"console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600" args from the script are not picked
by the anaconda of guest while booting.

-- A console shows up only when I manually edit the guest machine's
kernel args and append
"console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600" , /then/ boot the guest - now
console shows up happily.

My question is : shouldn't the anaconda of the guest machine pick up
automatically
"console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600" in the --extra-args mentioned in the
virt-install above?

Is this the expected behaviour? or shall I file a bug.


Regards,
Kashyap
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