I have built all the bits and pieces for running libvirt/qemu/kvm on my
ClefOS (CentOS) system. I note that anything other than —graphics=none
results in an error as libvirt tries to fine a PCI device. Using none and
specifying --extra-args console=ttyS0 results in the KVM guest booting and
all the typical messages start displaying. It then gets to this point:
Starting dracut initqueue hook…
Nothing shows (except if I hit ESC and the alt console is shown with nice
coloured bars moving). Then I get the following:
[ 135.596380] dracut-initqueue[600]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout -
starting timeout scripts
[ 136.149054] dracut-initqueue[600]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout -
starting timeout scripts
Before repeating this message multiple times and then giving up:
Starting Switch Root...
[FAILED] Failed to start Switch Root.
See 'systemctl status initrd-switch-root.service' for details.
Is there something I should have specified in the vert-install:
virt-install \
--name=itzgeekguest \
--connect=qemu:///system \
--ram=1024 \
--arch=s390x \
--virt-type=kvm \
--vcpus=1 \
--location=/mnt/iso \
--os-type=linux \
--os-variant=rhel7 \
--network bridge=virbr0 \
--graphics=none \
--extra-args console=ttyS0 \
--disk path=/var/kvm/clefos-7.3.1611.raw,size=4,bus=virtio
Neale
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