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
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