Hello, sorry for bother you again. I'm new to kvm and libvirt, that's why my next question is maybe some sort of noob question :) I have a headless server (no X at all, just ssh) and want to run some virtual machines on it. I have kvm etc. all set up. When doing something like virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n template -r 1024 --disk path=/data/vm/template.qcow2,format=qcow2 -c /data/vm/livedvd-amd64-multilib-2012.iso --os-type linux -v --network=bridge:br0 --virt-type kvm --arch x86_64 --graphics none the vm starts Starting install... Creating domain... Connected to domain template Escape character is ^] That's it, no more output. I see two threads running, each takes up 100% cpu. I tried to help myself via google and read a lot hints like "you need to setup your guest to get a serial console...", but that's not possible when running a fresh vm. All I want to do is getting some sort of console from the vm to start the installation with the given .iso file. Could someone lead me into the right direct? A link to an explanation would be more then enough :)

Thanks for your help. Kind regards, Felix Blanke _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users

On 2/8/12 9:46 AM, Osier Yang wrote: > On 2012幎02月08日 05:08, Felix Blanke wrote: >> Hello, >> >> sorry for bother you again. I'm new to kvm and libvirt, that's why my >> next question is maybe some sort of noob question :) >> >> I have a headless server (no X at all, just ssh) and want to run some >> virtual machines on it. I have kvm etc. all set up. >> >> When doing something like >> >> virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n template -r 1024 --disk >> path=/data/vm/template.qcow2,format=qcow2 -c >> /data/vm/livedvd-amd64-multilib-2012.iso --os-type linux -v >> --network=bridge:br0 --virt-type kvm --arch x86_64 --graphics none >> >> >> the vm starts >> >> Starting install... >> Creating domain... >> >> Connected to domain template >> Escape character is ^] >> >> >> That's it, no more output. I see two threads running, each takes up 100% >> cpu. >> I tried to help myself via google and read a lot hints like "you need to >> setup your guest to get a serial console...", but that's not possible >> when running a fresh vm. All I want to do is getting some sort of >> console from the vm to start the installation with the given .iso file. >> >> Could someone lead me into the right direct? A link to an explanation >> would be more then enough :) > > Try "--extra-args" to see if it works for you. e.g. > > --extra-args="console=ttyS0,115200" > This doesn't work: <snip> ERROR --extra-args only work if specified with --location. </snip> But I don't know what to tell for --location for a gentoo, because you compile your own kernel, etc.