[virt-tools-list] How to determine if installation is successful?

[Kay Williams]

Hello,

I am writing a python script to automate the installation of new virtual machines using virt-install. The question I have is how to determine when an installation has completed successfully.  In our particular case, we are installing RHEL and CentOS 5 and 6 systems.  If we happen to provide invalid information for the virt-install "extra-args" parameter, or in the kickstart, the anaconda install stops and waits for user input.  If the user chooses to halt the installation by sending a CTRL+ALT+DELETE, control returns to virt-install, which provides an misleading message that installation was complete along with a misleading error code "0" (success).

Can anyone suggest a good way to determine if a vm installation is successful?

Thanks,
Kay
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