[Xen-users] Guest kickstart installation and guest autostart

[KC LO <kclo2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have installed xen-3.4.2-2.el5 on CentOS 5.4 64bit OS

 

I encounter two problems : -

1) How to use kickstart with virt-install to auto-install Linux guest?

 

I use the following command to do installation

 

virt-install -p --name=test --location=http://ftp.cuhk.edu.hk/pub/Linux/centos/5.4/os/i386 --file=/dev/VolGroup00/test1 -r 4096 -x="ip=1.1.1.1 netmask=255.255.255. dns=8.8.8.8 gateway=1.1.1.254 ks=http://2.2.2.2/ks2.cfg"

 

However, the installation startup can not get the IP address and go into DHCP.  After timeout, I need to input IP address and installation will proceed and get the kickstart config. 

Any suggestions?

 

2) How to auto start the guest DomU after Dom0 reboot?

After I have installed the guest DomU through virt-install, I want to make this DomU auto start in next Dom0 reboot.  After I type

virsh autostart test

It return the following errors:
error: Failed to mark domain test as autostarted
error: internal error sexpr2string failed

 

Any suggestions?

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