[virt-tools-list] Virt-install problems

[Cole Robinson]

On 06/28/2010 12:11 PM, Jim wrote:
> FC13
> 
> virt-install starts but just hangs up, I put Selinux in Permissive mode 
> , but I still get the output to /messages.
> 
> # virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n vm10 -r 512 --vcpus=2 -f 
> /vm/vm10.qcow2 -s 12 -c /dev/cdrom --vnc --noautoconsole --os-type 
> windows --os-variant winxp --accelerate --network=bridge:br0 --hvm
> 
> Starting install...
> Creating domain...                                        |    0 B     
> 00:02
> Domain installation still in progress. Waiting for installation to complete.
> 
> 

How does it hang up? It's probably doing what it says: waiting for the
installation to complete/VM to shutdown. Since you are installing
windows which has multiple install phases, virt-install waits for the VM
to reboot a couple times so it can properly change the VM configuration.

That said, winxp installs in F13 are known broken:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579348

- Cole