Description of problem: virt-install --nographics --paravirt is broken, currently, on Fedora 7 and Rawhide. As reported by Markus Armbruster: "Dan pointed me to the fact that virt-install --nographics --paravirt doesn't work in F-7 and Rawhide. I checked, and found that we lost our hack to make sure console output goes somewhere sane when PVFB is off. The appended patch applies both to kernel-xen-2.6/F-7 and devel. I built a devel kernel, and it fixes virt-install." The patch is attached to this bug report. Steps to Reproduce: virt-install --nographics --paravirt --file /var/lib/xen/images/text.img --file-size 5 --name text --ram 500 --location nfs:<path to Fedora mirror>/redhat/released/F-7/GOLD/Fedora/x86_64/os Actual results: install kernel boots, prints a few messages, then i/o stops Expected results: proceeds to text install
Created attachment 235151 [details] Patch to fix the problem
*** Bug 253616 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 330911 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
kernel-xen-2.6-2.6.21-2950.fc8 was built with this fix, and released to rawhide (F8).
kernel-xen-2.6-2.6.20-2943.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel-xen-2.6'
kernel-xen-2.6-2.6.20-2943.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.