[libvirt-users] centos6.0 unable to install guests w/ kickstart via virt-install

Charles cshtreck at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 1 06:48:13 UTC 2011


How does one use virt-install and kickstart ? I've seen others have success but I've had no joy thus far.
BTW, my interactive virt-installs for centos6 guests work just fine AND I can do unattended kickstarts for vms by booting from centos6 install dvd and typing the kickstart commands from the boot: prompt. However, kickstart commands in --extra-args when used w/ virt-install just don't seem to work for me.

It looks like the kickstart file is just getting ignored .. 

virt-install -n d2 \
        -r 1024 \
        --vcpus=2 \
        -l http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/linux/centos/6/os/x86_64/ \
        --accelerate -v \
        --disk path=/data/vm/d2.img,size=10  \
        --os-type=linux \
        --os-variant=rhel6 
        --network=bridge:br0
        -x "ks=http://10.1.10.2/id400ks.cfg ip=10.1.10.2 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=10.1.10.1 dns=8.8.8.8"

The above will boot from the mirror and then launch into the interactive graphical installer as though the kickstart file isn't even there.

kickstart file is here http://pastebin.com/ZChtv2C5

I also tried 'virsh edit domain' and set cmdline to 
<cmdline>ks=http://10.1.10.2/id400ks.cfg</cmdline> 
and that didn't work. vm would'nt start.


details ...

uname -a Linux myhost 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 27 19:49:27 BST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root vm]# rpm -qa | grep libvir
libvirt-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.x86_64
libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.x86_64
libvirt-python-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.x86_64
[root vm]# rpm -qa | grep kvm
qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.113.el6_0.8.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.113.el6_0.8.x86_64


any hlp apprec.
C.





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