[Fedora-xen] FC7 as guest on FC6 dom0?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 02:37:29PM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a FC6 machine:
> 
> Linux wast.sitepen.com 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6xen #1 SMP Wed May 16 18:37:05
> EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> I have several guests running, including FC6, Windows Server 2003, and
> CentOS5.
> 
> I want to install a FC7 guest but when I run the following virt-install
> command the installation freezes:
> 
> virt-install --nographics --name=skeggles
> --file=/dev/vg_guests/lv_skeggles --ram=512
> --location=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/
> --extra-args="ip=172.29.172.50 netmask=255.255.255.0
> gateway=172.29.172.1 dns=192.168.2.203,192.168.2.204
> ks=http://dev.robinbowes.com/kickstart/sitepen/skeggles-FC7.cfg"
> 
> It boots into the FC7 install but only gets as far as:
> 
> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 938k
> 
> Then it hangs.

It hasn't hung - its merely sending console output somewhere you can't
see it. Basically its supposed to send it to both text console (xvc) 
and the grpahical console, but only sends it to the latter. Since you
used --nographics, you thus see nothing.

IIRC, you can add this arg to virt-install to workaround it:

  -x "console=xvc0"

Dan
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