[fedora-virt] question on virt-install (and partly anaconda)

[Kashyap Chamarthy <kashyapc fedoraproject org>]

Hi,

I run something like this, for un-attended automated guest installs.
===============================================================================================
#!/bin/bash

domname=yellow

location=http://10.65.x.x/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/x86_64/os/
vmimage="/var/lib/libvirt/images/$domname.img"

echo "Creating domain $domname" 

echo "Image is here  $vmimage"
echo "Location of the OS sources $location"

virt-install --connect=qemu:///system \
    --network=bridge:br0 \
    --extra-args="ks=http://10.65.y.y/fedora-minimal.ks console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600" \

    --name $domname \
    --file=$vmimage \
    --file-size=8 \
    --ram 1024 \
    --accelerate \
    --nonsparse \
    --location=$location \
============================================================================================

now here,

-- once the install is finished and guest reboots, a console does /not/ show up. Because, as the 
"console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600" args from the script are not picked by the anaconda of guest while booting.

-- A console shows up only when I manually edit the guest machine's kernel args and append 
"console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600" , /then/ boot the guest - now console shows up happily.

My question is : shouldn't the anaconda of the guest machine pick up automatically 

"console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600" in the --extra-args mentioned in the virt-install above?

Is this the expected behaviour? or shall I file a bug.


Regards,
Kashyap