Debian install over console

[Jamon Camisso]

On 11/23/2011 04:31 PM, Neil Watson wrote:
> I also tried with the last line being:
>     --nographics --autostart -x "install console=ttyS0,9600n8p"
> 
> Each time I get this:
> ettin:/srv/virtual# /home/neil/neil/docs/it/kvm.sh
> Starting install...
> Allocating
> 'nwtest'                                                                           
> Creating
> domain...                                                                            
> Connected to domain nwtest
> Escape character is ^]
> 
> Even after several minutes of waiting a console never appears. What have
> I done wrong?

It looks like ---nographics is causing the problem. From the man page:

--nographics
No graphical console will be allocated for the guest. Fully virtualized
guests (Xen FV or QEmu/KVM) will need to have a text console configured
on the first serial port in the guest (this can be done via the
--extra-args option). Xen PV will set this up automatically. The command
'virsh console NAME' can be used to connect to the serial device.

Jamon
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