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Samarth
Samarth

Reputation: 687

VM not restarting automatically when installed with kickstart with --noautoconsole option

I created a Centos 7.3 VM using kickstart using the following command:

virt-install --name=vm1 --disk path=vm1.img,size=20 --vcpus=2 --ram=10240 --os-type=linux --os-variant=rhel7.0 --network bridge=br0 --graphics none --location=http://<IP>/centos7.3 -x "ks=http://<IP>/centos73vm-ks.cfg append ip=<VM IP> netmask=255.255.252.0 gateway=<gw> bootproto=static console=ttyS0"

This works fine. VM is created, rebooted automatically and the node is usable. However, the problem with this is that I cannot use it to automate since I don't get the control back. To do that, I added the --noautoconsole options of the virt-install command at the end of the above command.

After doing so, VM is installed, but after reboot it does not come up automatically. It remains in shut off state. I need to start it manually. There are no errors on logging to the console. May someone give any leads on how to fix this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1083

Answers (2)

Tim Brandrick
Tim Brandrick

Reputation: 46

you need to add --wait=-1 so that virt-install waits for the installation to complete before exiting. The vm will then automatically start when the installation completes.

Upvotes: 3

Jonas Gr&#246;ger
Jonas Gr&#246;ger

Reputation: 1628

this sure sounds like an issue that was covered on the RedHat customer portal. I'm not sure if that requires a paid license but your company (or you) might have one already?

-- Jonas

Upvotes: 1

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