Nicholas Schuetz wrote: > Hello, > > I am using cobbler and koan to boot some RHEL 5.3 Xen pv guests on a > RHEL 5.3 host. The koan command I use to do so is: > > koan --nogfx --server=<cobbler-server> --virt --system=<guest hostname> > > The problem i'm seeing is ultimately the virtual guest ends up booting > w/o a console. The reason why is the guest inittab does not get > updated with: > > co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty xvc0 9600 vt100-nav > > I would think the --nogfx switch would tell virt-install or the like > that this is a no graphics installation and it needs a console. >
Yes, the --no-gfx flag prevents it from adding VNC support. I take it you mean that when using that flag you cannot connect to the guest with virsh during the install (or is it just after?) Either way, sems like a virtinst bug -- though it's the first I've heard of it. See what you have in koan.log (either /var/log/koan or ~/.koan -- can't remember where ATM)... that contains the libvirt XML used to create the guest. > Does anyone else have this issue. Is this a bug or am I doing > something wrong here? > > As a workaround I've added a line in the kickstart %post section to > add this to the inittab: > > echo "co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty xvc0 9600 vt100-nav" >> /etc/inittab > > > I'm using the following packages: > > koan-1.4.1-1.el5 > python-virtinst-0.300.2-12.el5 > libvirt-python-0.3.3-14.el5 > virt-manager-0.5.3-10.el5 > libvirt-0.3.3-14.el5 > xen-libs-3.0.3-80.el5 > xen-3.0.3-80.el5 > kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 > > cobbler-1.4.1-1.el5 > > > Regards, > > Nick > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
