The other headless option (and the one I use) is to set --noautoconsole in the virt-install command line. That will still set up a console device but not try launch.
I also had to specify the iso is a CD. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Dusty Mabe <du...@dustymabe.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 11:41:38AM -0500, JJ Asghar wrote: > > > > Hey everyone! > > > > As part of our one of our hack days at Chef, we decided that we should > automate the installation/bootstrap of ProjectAtomic[1]. Fair warning, > it???s not production ready by any standard, so please take a look but > don???t push it out to production???yet. Again, fair warning, DON???T USE > THIS IN PRODUCTION. > > > > Ok, done with the disclaimers, i???d like to ask some help us getting > past the last mile. > > > > Most, if not all of the machines we???re going to leverage are headless > GUI-less machines, we want to leverage virt-install[2]. It seems there is > an article[3] on this, but we???ve tried every way we could think of and we > couldn???t get it to work. The machine shows up in virsh list, but if you > connect with the console it just says ???Escape Character ^]??? and just > sits there. > > I think the key here may be "headless". The script at [1] works for me (I > use it all the > time) and uses *--graphics none* on the virt-install command line. Be sure > to read through > the script before using it. You'll also need to create a seed iso for > cloud-init user-data. > > -Dusty > > [1] - https://gist.github.com/dustymabe/b4d9a95eee3ff187e916 > >
