cobbler/koan (master) creates (kvm) vms without video

[igalic]

makes it kinda hard to diagnose exactly why it's failing to boot.

[igalic]

koan executes virt-install with --nographics

[jmaas]

what version are you on?

this is in master:
cobbler/cobbler@2fdd9fc

[igalic]

i've now tried explicitly passing -g to koan

root@chorizo ~ # koan -g vnc --server=localhost --virt   --system=ns03.esat
- looking for Cobbler at http://localhost:80/cobbler_api
install_tree: http://188.40.114.151/distros/ubuntu-12.04.5-x86_64
- ['/usr/bin/virt-install', '--version']
- ['virt-install', '--version']
vgs -o vg_name
File descriptor 3 (/var/log/koan/koan.log) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 18506: /bin/sh
File descriptor 6 (socket:[468522]) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 18506: /bin/sh
  VG    
  vg_sys
  vg_vms

LANG=C vgs --noheadings -o vg_free --units g vg_vms
File descriptor 3 (/var/log/koan/koan.log) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 18508: /bin/sh
File descriptor 6 (socket:[468522]) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 18508: /bin/sh
(1291.13)
lvs --noheadings -o lv_name vg_vms
File descriptor 3 (/var/log/koan/koan.log) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 18510: /bin/sh
File descriptor 6 (socket:[468522]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 18510: /bin/sh
  ns03.esat-disk0

- adding disk: /dev/mapper/vg_vms-ns03.esat--disk0 of size 5 (driver type=raw)
- ['virt-install', '--connect', 'qemu:///system', '--name', 'ns03.esat', '--ram', '2048', '--vcpus', '2', '--autostart', '--True', '--virt-type', 'kvm', '--machine', 'pc', '--location', 'http://188.40.114.151/distros/ubuntu-12.04.5-x86_64/', '--extra-args=ksdevice=link lang= url=http://188.40.114.151/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/ns03.esat text auto-install/enable=true priority=critical ', '--arch', 'x86_64', '--os-variant', 'ubuntuprecise', '--disk', 'path=/dev/mapper/vg_vms-ns03.esat--disk0,size=5,format=raw', '--network', 'bridge=br0', '--wait', '0', '--noautoconsole']
Usage: virt-install --name NAME --ram RAM STORAGE INSTALL [options]

virt-install: error: no such option: --True
command failed (2)
root@chorizo ~ # koan -g  --server=localhost --virt   --system=ns03.esat
- looking for Cobbler at http://localhost:80/cobbler_api
install_tree: http://188.40.114.151/distros/ubuntu-12.04.5-x86_64
- ['/usr/bin/virt-install', '--version']
- ['virt-install', '--version']
vgs -o vg_name
File descriptor 3 (/var/log/koan/koan.log) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 18566: /bin/sh
File descriptor 6 (socket:[443095]) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 18566: /bin/sh
  VG    
  vg_sys
  vg_vms

LANG=C vgs --noheadings -o vg_free --units g vg_vms
File descriptor 3 (/var/log/koan/koan.log) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 18568: /bin/sh
File descriptor 6 (socket:[443095]) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 18568: /bin/sh
(1291.13)
lvs --noheadings -o lv_name vg_vms
File descriptor 3 (/var/log/koan/koan.log) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 18570: /bin/sh
File descriptor 6 (socket:[443095]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 18570: /bin/sh
  ns03.esat-disk0

- adding disk: /dev/mapper/vg_vms-ns03.esat--disk0 of size 5 (driver type=raw)
- ['virt-install', '--connect', 'qemu:///system', '--name', 'ns03.esat', '--ram', '2048', '--vcpus', '2', '--autostart', '--True', '--virt-type', 'kvm', '--machine', 'pc', '--location', 'http://188.40.114.151/distros/ubuntu-12.04.5-x86_64/', '--extra-args=ksdevice=link lang= url=http://188.40.114.151/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/ns03.esat text auto-install/enable=true priority=critical ', '--arch', 'x86_64', '--os-variant', 'ubuntuprecise', '--disk', 'path=/dev/mapper/vg_vms-ns03.esat--disk0,size=5,format=raw', '--network', 'bridge=br0', '--wait', '0', '--noautoconsole']
Usage: virt-install --name NAME --ram RAM STORAGE INSTALL [options]

virt-install: error: no such option: --True
command failed (2)
root@chorizo ~ # 

[igalic]

re version:

root@chorizo ~ # cobbler version
Cobbler 2.9.0
  source: 8a789ba, Sun Sep 14 13:52:02 2014 +0200
  build time: Sun Sep 14 12:17:53 2014
root@chorizo ~ # 

[igalic]

reverting to 2.6.5 also fixes this…