Hi,
Hopefully everyone had a good holiday. I'm not expecting any replies until
after the first of the year. :)
I am trying to set up a Spacewalk kickstart build of a KVM guest and I'm not
getting verify far. Not knowing what the problem is prevents me from doing a
successful Google search to find any answers, so I am hoping someone on the
list can help.
I am using the Quick Start Guide for Spacewalk (kickstart) found on the wiki
page and referenced the Satellite 5.5 Reference Guide.
I successfully created a kickstart channel and profile and I am trying the use
koan as suggested towards the end of the instructions. The problem is that once
koan starts and begins the domain creation, it disconnects and tells me that I
have to reconnect to the console. Here's the output:
Starting install...
Retrieving file .treeinfo... | 3.3 kB 00:00 ...
Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 7.2 MB 00:00 ...
Retrieving file initrd.img... | 57 MB 00:00 ...
Creating domain... | 0 B 00:00
Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect to
the console to complete the installation process.
So I do reconnect:
[root@srhelvs21 ~]# virsh console sccrxa21-vm
Connected to domain sccrxa21-vm
Escape character is ^]
But then nothing happens. The session is locked. I can't get a response if I
hit enter or any of the keys. I can't even break out at this point.
So at this point I'm stuck. I have no idea what's going on, so I don't know if
I have any configuration issues or what.
In case someone is interested, here's my complete koan script:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/koan --server=pspwks20.publix.com \
--virt \
--virt-name sccrxa23-vm \
--virt-path /kvm/sccrxa23 \
--profile=rhel6-64bit-ccrx-ks-profile:1:SpacewalkDefaultOrganization \
--nogfx
And here is the output that koan generates before it begins the build process:
- looking for Cobbler at http://pspwks20.publix.com:80/cobbler_api
- reading URL:
http://pspwks20.publix.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/rhel6-64bit-ccrx-ks-profile:1:SpacewalkDefaultOrganization
install_tree: http://pspwks20.publix.com/ks/dist/ccrx-kvm-guest
- ['rpm', '-q', 'virt-install']
- ['rpm', '-q', 'python-virtinst']
libvirtd (pid 5605) is running...
- ['virt-install', '--version']
- ['qemu-img', 'create', '-f', 'raw', '/kvm/sccrxa23/sccrxa23-vm-disk0', '3G']
Formatting '/kvm/sccrxa23/sccrxa23-vm-disk0', fmt=raw size=3221225472
- adding disk: /kvm/sccrxa23/sccrxa23-vm-disk0 of size 3 (driver type=raw)
- ['virt-install', '--connect', 'qemu:///system', '--name', 'sccrxa23-vm',
'--ram', '512',
'--vcpus', '1', '--autostart', '--nographics', '--virt-type', 'qemu',
'--machine', 'pc', '--hvm',
'--extra-args=ksdevice=link lang= console=ttyS0,115200 text
ks=http://pspwks20.publix.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/rhel6-64bit-ccrx-ks-profile:1:SpacewalkDefaultOrganization
serial kssendmac ',
'--location', 'http://pspwks20.publix.com/ks/dist/ccrx-kvm-guest/',
'--arch', 'i386', '--os-variant', 'generic26', '--disk',
'path=/kvm/sccrxa23/sccrxa23-vm-disk0,size=3,format=raw',
'--network', 'bridge=br0', '--wait', '0', '--noautoconsole']
There are a few things I would like to change, but I can't figure out where to
make the changes. These options are:
'--arch', 'i386', <<<< - this should be x86_64
'--os-variant', 'generic26' <<<<- this should be rhel6
Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.
Alan
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