On 12/23/19 12:15 PM, Cole Robinson wrote: > On 12/23/19 12:07 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: >> I'm trying to use koan with cobbler to install a Ubuntu 16.04 VM. koan >> invokes virt-install with: >> >> 'virt-install', '--connect', 'qemu:///system', '--name', 'vmub16', '--ram', >> '2000', '--vcpus', '1', '--graphics', 'spice', '--virt-type', 'kvm', >> '--machine', 'pc', '--location', >> 'http://saga.cora.nwra.com/cblr/links/ubuntu-16.04.6-x86_64/', >> '--extra-args=auto-install/enable=true priority=critical >> url=http://saga.cora.nwra.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/vmub16 ksdevice=link lang= >> text ', '--arch', 'x86_64', '--os-variant', 'virtio26', '--disk', >> 'path=/dev/mapper/vg_nvme-vmub16--disk0,size=35,bus=scsi,format=raw', >> '--network', 'bridge=br0,mac=00:16:3e:32:4f:a1', '--wait', '0', '--noautoconsole' >> >> The problem is that virt-install appears to see the install image as a CD >> image (which it is since that is what gets imported into cobbler) and boots >> the normal CD initrd which does not activate the network and cannot do a >> network install. >> >> What magic do I need to do to get it to use the netboot kernel/initrd >> location? --debug output is attached. > > virt-install has some weird behavior here, see the code here: > https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/blob/master/virtinst/install/urldetect.py#L653 > > Maybe it's getting something wrong here for ubuntu. Possibly deleting > the .disk/info file in the tree will help, but might just give you the > same kernel/initrd paths. > > You can alter the command --location > $URL,kernel=./relative/path/to/vmlinuz,initrd=./relative/path/to/initrd > to point at a working pair relative to the URL, but no idea if koan > provides that option. That's virt-manager 2.1.0+ though > > - Cole > So testing with virt-install from virt-manager 2.2.1 seems to show that it is fixed there: Starting install... [Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:51:24 virt-install 10285] DEBUG (urlfetcher:207) hasFile(http://saga.cora.nwra.com/cblr/links/ubuntu-16.04.6-x86_64/install/netboot/ubuntu-installer/amd64/linux) returning True [Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:51:24 virt-install 10285] DEBUG (urlfetcher:207) hasFile(http://saga.cora.nwra.com/cblr/links/ubuntu-16.04.6-x86_64/install/netboot/ubuntu-installer/amd64/initrd.gz) returning True [Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:51:24 virt-install 10285] DEBUG (urlfetcher:139) Fetching URI: http://saga.cora.nwra.com/cblr/links/ubuntu-16.04.6-x86_64/install/netboot/ubuntu-installer/amd64/linux Retrieving file linux... | 6.9 MB 00:00:00 [Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:51:25 virt-install 10285] DEBUG (urlfetcher:224) Saved file to /home/orion-admin/.cache/virt-manager/boot/virtinst-myi01nu4-linux [Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:51:25 virt-install 10285] DEBUG (urlfetcher:139) Fetching URI: http://saga.cora.nwra.com/cblr/links/ubuntu-16.04.6-x86_64/install/netboot/ubuntu-installer/amd64/initrd.gz Retrieving file initrd.gz... | 49 MB 00:00:00 [Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:51:25 virt-install 10285] DEBUG (urlfetcher:224) Saved file to /home/orion-admin/.cache/virt-manager/boot/virtinst-xb1lqzf5-initrd.gz Sorry for not testing that out earlier. -- Orion Poplawski Manager of NWRA Technical Systems 720-772-5637 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion@xxxxxxxx Boulder, CO 80301 https://www.nwra.com/
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