[Spacewalk-list] Attempting to create a KVM using kickstart via Spacewalk

[Alan Pittman]

Hi,
 Hopefully everyone had a good holiday. I'm not expecting any replies until after the first of the year. :)

 I am trying to set up a Spacewalk kickstart build of a KVM guest and I'm not getting verify far. Not knowing what the problem is prevents me from doing a successful Google search to find any answers, so I am hoping someone on the list can help.

I am using the Quick Start Guide for Spacewalk (kickstart) found on the wiki page and referenced the Satellite 5.5 Reference Guide.

I successfully created a kickstart channel and profile and I am trying the use koan as suggested towards the end of the instructions. The problem is that once koan starts and begins the domain creation,  it disconnects and tells me that I have to reconnect to the console. Here's the output:

Starting install...
Retrieving file .treeinfo...                             | 3.3 kB     00:00 ...
Retrieving file vmlinuz...                               | 7.2 MB     00:00 ...
Retrieving file initrd.img...                            |  57 MB     00:00 ...
Creating domain...                                       |    0 B     00:00
Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect to
the console to complete the installation process.

So I do reconnect:

[root at srhelvs21 ~]# virsh console sccrxa21-vm
Connected to domain sccrxa21-vm
Escape character is ^]

But then nothing happens. The session is locked. I can't get a response if I hit enter or any of the keys. I can't even break out at this point. 

So at this point I'm stuck. I have no idea what's going on, so I don't know if I have any configuration issues or what.

In case someone is interested, here's my complete koan script:
#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/koan --server=pspwks20.publix.com  \
         --virt \
         --virt-name sccrxa23-vm \
         --virt-path /kvm/sccrxa23 \
         --profile=rhel6-64bit-ccrx-ks-profile:1:SpacewalkDefaultOrganization \
         --nogfx

And here is the output that koan generates before it begins the build process:

- looking for Cobbler at http://pspwks20.publix.com:80/cobbler_api
- reading URL: http://pspwks20.publix.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/rhel6-64bit-ccrx-ks-profile:1:SpacewalkDefaultOrganization
install_tree: http://pspwks20.publix.com/ks/dist/ccrx-kvm-guest
- ['rpm', '-q', 'virt-install']
- ['rpm', '-q', 'python-virtinst']
libvirtd (pid  5605) is running...
- ['virt-install', '--version']
- ['qemu-img', 'create', '-f', 'raw', '/kvm/sccrxa23/sccrxa23-vm-disk0', '3G']
Formatting '/kvm/sccrxa23/sccrxa23-vm-disk0', fmt=raw size=3221225472
- adding disk: /kvm/sccrxa23/sccrxa23-vm-disk0 of size 3 (driver type=raw)
- ['virt-install', '--connect', 'qemu:///system', '--name', 'sccrxa23-vm', '--ram', '512',
 '--vcpus', '1', '--autostart', '--nographics', '--virt-type', 'qemu', '--machine', 'pc', '--hvm', 
'--extra-args=ksdevice=link lang= console=ttyS0,115200 text ks=http://pspwks20.publix.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/rhel6-64bit-ccrx-ks-profile:1:SpacewalkDefaultOrganization serial kssendmac ', 
'--location', 'http://pspwks20.publix.com/ks/dist/ccrx-kvm-guest/',
 '--arch', 'i386', '--os-variant', 'generic26', '--disk', 'path=/kvm/sccrxa23/sccrxa23-vm-disk0,size=3,format=raw',
 '--network', 'bridge=br0', '--wait', '0', '--noautoconsole']

There are a few things I would like to change, but I can't figure out where to make the changes. These options are:
'--arch', 'i386', <<<< - this should be x86_64
 '--os-variant', 'generic26' <<<<- this should be rhel6

Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.

Alan

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