On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:03:12AM +0000, Nuno Fernandes wrote:
Hi,
After applying your patch i didn't get any error like memory corruption. Nevertheless i was able to access graphics using vnc. Even specifying vnc it tries to open display (maybe something requires it - virt-viewer).
[root@localhost ~]# virt-install -n test -r 512 --vnc -- file=/dev/VolGroup00/test-os --location=ftp://mirrors/centos/5/os/i386 -x 'text' --vncport=5900
Starting install... Retrieving file .treeinfo 100% |=========================| 413 B 00:00 Retrieving file vmlinuz.. 100% |=========================| 2.1 MB 00:00 Retrieving file initrd.im 100% |=========================| 5.4 MB 00:00 Creating domain... 0 B 00:01
(virt-viewer:4021): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect to the console to complete the installation process.
Yes, at this point it has tried to start 'virt-viewer' to show you the VNC console to complete installation. The fact that it couldn't start it was not a serious problem - you could easily start it yourself as you discovered. If you wanted to supress the error, you could pass the --noautoconsole flag to virt-install, which stops it trying to launch virt-viewer at all.
I access the console using vnc but as you said, after the instalation completes it didn't restart. It disappeared from "virsh list" but i'm able to start it again using:
[root@localhost ~]# virsh start test Domain test started [root@localhost ~]# virsh list Id Name State ---------------------------------- 0 Domain-0 running 3 test idle
If there's anything i can do to help please let me know.
This is actually the expected behaviour. Since virt-viewer could not be started directly, virt-install finished leaving you to manually restart the guest once installation was complete. If virt-install had been able to launch virt-viewer, it would have automatically restarted the guest once install was complete. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|