I've finished my first installation of Fedora Core 4 with qemu. This took about 75 minutes for 820 rpm packages on a P4 2.4GHz with qemu configured to have 384MB of RAM. Using "-kernel/-initrd" did not work for me, so I put together a new ISO image which is setting all syslinux options correctly. Configuring qemu to only use a serial console, I can now automatically install and start it e.g. within "screen" and keep it running there. Then I only login via ssh to get some work done. Let me know if you run the below script also for ppc/x86_64 and/or for other releases and how those work. regards, Florian La Roche #!/bin/sh # # Install and run Fedora Core 4 with qemu. # # kickstart file to use KS="ks=http://192.168.123.128/mirror/ks.cfg"; # image file to use as harddisk IMAGE=fc4.vmdk # network MAC address to use #MAC="-macaddr d0:0f:af:fe:10:00 52:54:00:12:34:56" # directory where to find Fedora Core FEDORA=/var/www/html/mirror/fedora/4/i386/os test -d $FEDORA || FEDORA=/home/mirror/fedora/4/i386/os PXE=$FEDORA/images/pxeboot # install params for a serial console APPEND="initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 text console=ttyS0,9600n8" APPEND="$APPEND utf8 selinux=0 $KS clock=pit" # Do we want to start a new installation? if test "$1" = "install" ; then # Sanity check. test -d $FEDORA || exit 1 test -d $PXE || exit 1 # Create an empty harddisk image: test -f $IMAGE || qemu-img create $IMAGE 6G # The following is not working for me, not sure why: #qemu $MAC -m 384 -nographic -kernel $PXE/vmlinuz \ # -initrd $PXE/initrd.img -append "$APPEND" -hda $IMAGE # Use this for normall install options with a real console: #qemu $MAC -m 384 -serial stdio -cdrom $FEDORA/images/boot.iso \ # -hda $IMAGE -boot d # Copy boot data into a new directory: BOOTDIR=`mktemp -d bootdirXXXXXX` BOOTISO=`mktemp bootXXXXXX.iso` cp -r $FEDORA/isolinux $BOOTDIR/ chmod 644 $BOOTDIR/isolinux/* sed -i -e "s/^timeout .*/timeout 5/" $BOOTDIR/isolinux/isolinux.cfg sed -i -e "s#^ append .*# append $APPEND#" $BOOTDIR/isolinux/isolinux.cfg #cat $BOOTDIR/isolinux/isolinux.cfg mkisofs -quiet -o $BOOTISO -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \ -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -R -J \ -V "serial console install" -T $BOOTDIR rm -rf $BOOTDIR time qemu $MAC -m 384 -nographic -cdrom $BOOTISO -hda $IMAGE -boot d rm -rf $BOOTISO exit 0 fi qemu $MAC -m 256 -nographic -hda $IMAGE exit 0 # Things todo within the installed system: # - Modify /etc/inittab to start a serial getty: # s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 linux # s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -r -s 9600 /dev/ttyS0 linux # - Modify /boot/grub/grub.conf: # #splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz # serial –unit=0 –speed=9600 # terminal –timeout=10 --dump --lines=24 --silent serial console # - Modify grub.conf to have "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8" # to output kernel messages on both consoles, last entry is # also used for keyboard input. # - Modify /etc/securetty to include your serial device. # TODO: # - Try 38400 or 115200 as speed of the serial port? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
