On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:59:58PM -0800, Anthony Shortland wrote: > We're running version 0.600.0 of virt-install with version 0.10.2 of libvert and version 0.12.1.2 of qemu-kvm on RHEL 6.3. > > We're trying to script an automated image build process and want virt-install to exit when Kickstart completes and halts the guest virtual machine (using the "shutdown" option). > > The thing is that virt-install hangs indefinitely staying connected to the text console (on ttyS0 with --graphics=none) and only exits on timeout if the --wait option is specified. > > Is there any way virt-install can simply wait for the Kickstart to complete and halt the guest and then exit gracefully? > > We intend to package the built image for use in our operational infrastructure. Why not look at Oz and/or virt-builder? They have slightly different angles on this, but both are expressly designed to create guests from scripts. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
