On 07/28/2014 12:55 PM, Digimer wrote: > On 28/07/14 12:02 PM, Cole Robinson wrote: >> On 07/28/2014 11:37 AM, Digimer wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've noticed that, for reasons I am not entirely sure of (though may exist >>> and be valid), newly provisioned EL6 and EL7 VMs stay off after pressing >>> "reboot" at the end of the OS install (--os-variant rhel*). I've seen this >>> behaviour on RHEL/CentOS 6.x and various recent Fedoras. Note that when I >>> install other OSes, the VM reboots properly. >>> >>> Why would this be? Is this designed behaviour? Installing the same on >>> bare-iron nodes reboots properly. >>> >> >> The VM should be restarting... can you show an example command line and full >> virt-install --debug output? Make sure you aren't passing --noreboot or --wait >> timeout that is expiring. >> >> The way it's supposed to work is that the VM fully shuts down, virt-install >> changes the VM configuration to boot off the now installed disk, and restarts >> the VM. It does this by telling VM to shutdown rather than perform a soft >> reboot with <on_reboot>destroy</on_reboot> in the VM XML. It does this for all >> VM installs regardless of the OS. >> >> When the VM shuts down after install, virt-install should update the config, >> restart the VM, and exit. But clearly that's failing here >> >> - Cole > > Here is an example install which showed the problem. It is very similar to how > I do all my EL6/EL7 installs (save for sometimes installing from PXE/http): > > virt-install --connect qemu:///system \ > --name an-a03n01 \ > --ram 2048 \ > --arch x86_64 \ > --vcpus 2 \ > --cdrom /mnt/usb/VMs/files/CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-Everything.iso \ > --os-variant rhel7 \ > --network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \ > --network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \ > --network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \ > --network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \ > --network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \ > --network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \ > --disk path=/mnt/usb/VMs/images/an-a03n01.img,bus=virtio,size=40 \ > --graphics vnc > I just tried a centos 7 install from cdrom with a nearly identical command line using stock f20 host, and virt-install rebooted the guest correctly at the end of the VM install. So you'll need to provide the virt-install --debug output of a failing invocation so I can see what's going wrong Thanks, Cole _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
