Test 3:(failed___too, same as Test0)
virt-install --connect=qemu:///system --location=http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer\-i386 --initrd-inject=$HOME/Downloads/preseed.cfg --extra-args="netcfg/get_ipaddress=192.168.122.2 netcfg/get_netmask=255.255.255.0 netcfg/get_gateway=192.168.122.1 netcfg/get_nameservers=192.168.122.1 netcfg/disable_dhcp=true" --name virtdebstable6 --ram=512 --disk=pool=default,size=5,format=qcow2,bus=virtio --network network=default --hvm --accelerate --vnc
preseed.cfg
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 06:34:16PM +0200, Mario Gummies wrote:
Hello everybody,
Was looking after "the guest controlled by a ssh connection." - out-of-box
Here the problem about virt-install and d-i is explained and worked on and with all details:
https://qemuburopointdpkg.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/status-quo-locked-out-after-preseed/
Which ends with: 'I want to have straight ssh key access from the host.'
Advice/request: change
https://qemuburopointdpkg.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/guest_internet_if_after_install.png?w=300&h=268
into
https://qemuburopointdpkg.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/guest_internet_if_after_install.png?w=600&h=536
And after that picture is the blog posting unpleasent to read,
IMHO too much "Dumping URLs here, because had a hard time on finding those URLs".
Excuse. I work in that post. In the buttom part I append now found urls with comments and tests with results.
Did mainly three tests.
-The first and the third with a preseed file failed: broken network.
-The second without preseeding (according to a virt-install supporter) brought a network as a expected, so
this stated, that indeed the preseed.cfg is culprit.
Chose different compilations of "d-i netcfg/.*", but none matched the default manual installation of the
second test.
How might I achieve this?
Who can help me, how to proceed preseeding?
What is wrong with my preseed.cfg?
Tia for any tip.
Take a walk around the lake.
Other whatever gives your brain a refocus opportunity.
Back to the original challenge.
I think it is an interresting problem. It is the wish to do
virt-install -name $freshVM --more --parameters --and --options
ssh $freshVM
So one command creates a fresh virtual machine
and upon the next command is it possible to SSH into the fresh VM.
Tricky part is that virt-install default uses DHCP stuff,
which means some kind of random factor. ssh goes to a host,
there you don't want a random factor.
For the original poster. I think the problem is not in the preseed file,
it is in how the whole chain should be mixed.
Thing that _might_ work is adding in the host /etc/hosts a line like
192.168.122.6 virtdebstable3
The idea is that libvirt uses the dnsmasq programm for DHCP server to VMs.
When that dnsmasq sees a DHCP request with hostname virtdebstable3
it _might_ assign 192.168.122.6 because that info is in /etc/hosts.
The ssh programm on the host surely reads /etc/hosts for the address
of virtdebstable3.this is my first post in this mailing list.--
Welcome. FWIW, plain text is preferred.
Groeten
Geert Stappers
Leven en laten leven
