Re: [Xen-users] virt-install HVM with url and kickstart?

["Jerry Amundson" <jamundso@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Mark Chaney <macscr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a kickstart file created that works great for installing CentOS on
> PVM's and now I want to use it for HVM's as well. The problem is that when I
> attempt to run the install, it seems to ignore the kickstart and starts
> prompting me for all the things I already have specified in the kickstart.
> Any idea what I could be doing wrong? Here is the command im using to get
> things started:
>
> virt-install --hvm
> --location=http://mirrors.liquidweb.com/CentOS/5.2/os/x86_64 --noautoconsole
> --file=/dev/XenVol/XenVE2 --name=testvm2 --ram=512 --network bridge:xenbr1
> --vnc -x "ks=http://blah.com/client_work/kickstart.txt ip=67.xx.xx.xx
> netmask=255.255.xxx.0 dns=208.67.222.222 gateway=67.xxx.xxx.x"
>
> Note: I did modify the kickstart to use "hda" for partitioning versus
> "xvda".

I haven't done what you're trying, exactly, but based on the
prompting, I'd guess the vm cannot retrieve the ks file. For example,
maybe it has no network access.

jerry

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