Hello Lars, If you have installed virtualization package group in the Fedora 14, you can use virsh, virt-install, etc commands and it's easy to use them than qemu command. You can start installation of fedora 15 guest with text console mode with following command. # virt-install \ --connect qemu:///system \ --name fedora15 \ --ram 1024 \ --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/fedora15.img,size=8 \ --network network:default \ --location http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/fedora/releases/15/Fedora/x86_64/os/ \ --os-type Linux \ --os-variant virtio26 \ --nographics \ --accelerate \ --hvm \ --extra-args 'console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200'; When you entered the above command, following message will be displayed. -- message begin -- Creating domain... Connected to domain fedora15 Escape character is ^] -- message end -- Wait here for about 1〜2 minutes. After this, the CUI screen of "Welcome to Fedora for x86_64 Choose a Language" will be displayed. You can proceed as usual installtion of fedora. At the final stage of installation, "reboot" button will be displayed. After you click the reboot button, the following messaged will be displayed. -- message begin -- rebooting system Restarting system. -- message end -- At Here, just hit the 'Enter' key. After this, you will see the following message. -- message begin -- Starting sshd: [ OK ] -- message end -- At Here, just hit the 'Enter' key again. After this, Fedora15 login prompt will be displayed. So, You can log in your Fedora 15 guest machine. After you logged in the guest, you have to enter the following command, because it seems that the networks was not began properly when the minimal installation was done with fedora 15. # chkconfig network on # service network restart That's all. Enjoy! If you have something error while installing guest machine, you can clean up by the following command. And you can restart installtion from the beginning. # virsh list --all # virsh destroy fedora15 # virsh undefine fedora15 # rm -f /var/lib/libvirt/images/fedora15.img # service libvirtd restart After successfull installation, you can use the following commands to access and manipulate the guest machine. check which guests is available and if the guest is running or not # virsh list --all start fedora15 guest # virsh start fedora15 connect to the fedora15's text console # virsh console fedora15 shutdown fedora15 # virsh shutdown fedora15 shutdown fedora15 forcibly # virsh destroy fedora15 check if guest is running or not # virsh list --all Regards, Hisao On 08/11/2011 03:54 AM, Lars Bjørndal wrote: > My approach is to install Fedora on to a virtual machine. The host is > Fedora 14, text mode. I'm blind, and because of that, I use BRLTTY, and > no X server or other graphic output. The problem is that anaconda do > switch to graphic mode during the install, and I'm stuck. Here is the > command I've tried: > > 'qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic\ > -cdrom Fedora-15-x86_64-DVD/Fedora-15-x86_64-DVD.iso \ > -k no -curses -hda image.qcow2 -m 1024'. > > I then quickly did press enter, and typed: > > 'linux text nomodeset nofb' > > However, I get no output while typing, so I'm not sure the keyboard > input is reaching the guest system at all. > > Could someone please advice me on how to perform a text install to a > virtual machine? > > Regards, > Lars -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
