libvirt users - Apr 2014 - "virt-install" source location boot disk

Hi virt, im stumped... any help would be appreciated.

I normally create my VMs like this:

base="http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/os/"
sudo virt-install --hvm --name $vm_name$i --ram 4000 \
--disk path=/VirtualMachines/$vm_name$i,size=30 \
--location $base -x  "ks=http://xxx.os21.ks$kx"


HOWEVER... I'm finding that my VMs dont boot after i restart the Host.


My question is:  Where is virt-install writing the boot disk to?

I get a error message that the "boot failed" because the hard disk, is
not a bootable disk.

But I can't imagine where else to boot from ?  Because I point
my --location of the original boot to the source code repo itself....

ANY help would be appreciated thanks!

Jay Vyas <jayunit100@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi virt, im stumped... any help would be appreciated.
>
> I normally create my VMs like this: 
>
>
base="http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/os/"
>
> sudo virt-install --hvm --name $vm_name$i --ram 4000 \
> --disk path=/VirtualMachines/$vm_name$i,size=30 \
> --location $base -x  "ks=http://xxx.os21.ks$kx"
>
> HOWEVER... I'm finding that my VMs dont boot after i restart the Host.
>
> My question is:  Where is virt-install writing the boot disk to?  
I don't see anything wrong in your command line and it should just work.

How does your kickstart file look like?  And your domain XML definition
(you can get it with "virsh dumpxml $vm_name$i")?

Regards,
Giuseppe

Hi Giuseppe and thanks for the response............ Heres some more info:


Here is my kickstart... maybe the "--bootloader" argument is wrong in
some
way?

# Put this in pastebin or some other public url
# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.

#version=DEVEL
install
cdrom
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
timezone --utc America/New_York
rootpw  --iscrypted
$6$9bRPXTZZMy0FNl2A$lgY.MS3pZ.0PVg4o3AQeJOydPwGVphdKT07tHlJUmdoRTz4UQQ/L54ny0QHkdubMquqkr4jw37DxmM0FL5kRn1
selinux --enforcing
authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
firewall --service=ssh


#Disable graphical stuff
skipx
#text

# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
# Uncommented by j
zerombr
clearpart --all
autopart
#ip=192.168.122.99
network --bootproto=static --ip=192.168.122.100
--netmask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=192.168.122.1
--nameserver=192.168.122.1
bootloader --location=mbr --timeout=5 --append="rhgb quiet"
....
%end


Some more details:  This is what my "df" output is

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
                      26552588   2244364  22959412   9% /
tmpfs                  1978444         0   1978444   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1               495844     33710    436534   8% /boot



On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Giuseppe Scrivano
<gscrivan@redhat.com>wrote:
> Jay Vyas <jayunit100@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi virt, im stumped... any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > I normally create my VMs like this:
> >
> >
base="http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/os/"
> >
> > sudo virt-install --hvm --name $vm_name$i --ram 4000 \
> > --disk path=/VirtualMachines/$vm_name$i,size=30 \
> > --location $base -x  "ks=http://xxx.os21.ks$kx"
> >
> > HOWEVER... I'm finding that my VMs dont boot after i restart the
Host.
> >
> > My question is:  Where is virt-install writing the boot disk to?
>
> I don't see anything wrong in your command line and it should just
work.
>
> How does your kickstart file look like?  And your domain XML definition
> (you can get it with "virsh dumpxml $vm_name$i")?
>
> Regards,
> Giuseppe
>


-- 
Jay Vyas
http://jayunit100.blogspot.com