From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cole Robinson Subject: Re: problems with domain installation Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:38:50 -0500 Message-ID: <4B2107FA.1000707@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Tomas Macek Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:4697 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751099AbZLJOip (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:38:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/10/2009 08:31 AM, Tomas Macek wrote: > Hi, I'm using redhat enterprise 5.4 with newest redhat kvm/qemu packages > installed for testing purposes. > I'm trying to install debian lenny from ISO on the machine with only > ssh access using virt-install python script and the output is like this > > ------------------------- > [root@localhost ~]# virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n debnet -f > ~/debnet.qcow2 -s 3 -r 128 --accelerate --network=bridge:br0 --hvm > --location http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/ > --nographics -x console=/dev/pts/3 > That last piece should be similar to console=/dev/ttyS0 . You are telling the guest to use the emulated serial device it sees, not a PTY on the host (which it can't access directly anyways). Google 'linux serial console' for more info (FYI, virsh and virt-install questions are better directed to libvirt-list@redhat.com or virt-tools-list@redhat.com respectively). - Cole