Been trying to create my first VM with KVM but getting a cryptic error from virt-install. It’s saying I have a ‘unrecognized arguments’ but does not say which argument:
$ sudo virt-install
> --name centos7_vm1
> --memory 1024
> --disk /data/kvm_images/centos7-vm1.qcow2,device=disk
> --disk /data/kvm_images/centos7-vm1.iso,device=cdrom
> --os-type linux
> --os-variant centos7.0
> --virt-type kvm
> --graphics none
> --network default
> --import
usage: virt-install --name NAME --memory MB STORAGE INSTALL [options]
virt-install: error: unrecognized arguments:
$
Looking at docs and general googling cant work out what is wrong. Ime running CentOS 7, virt-install 1.5.0.
$ ls -l /data/kvm_images
total 70584
-rw------- 1 qemu qemu 26847870976 May 11 00:06 centos7-docker.qcow2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 374784 May 11 14:35 centos7-vm1.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68026368 May 11 14:02 centos7-vm1.qcow2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104 May 11 14:33 centos7-vm1.setup.yaml
$
Here are what I did to get this far
The first thing I did was download the image
$ wget wget https://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/CentOS-7-ppc64le-GenericCloud-2003.qcow2
Then checked it seemed OK
$ qemu-img info CentOS-7-ppc64le-GenericCloud-2003.qcow2
image: CentOS-7-ppc64le-GenericCloud-2003.qcow2c
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 8.0G (8589934592 bytes)
disk size: 395M
cluster_size: 65536
Format specific information:
compat: 1.1
lazy refcounts: false
Then I resized it to twenty-five GB
$ qemu-img resize CentOS-7-ppc64le-GenericCloud-2003.qcow2 25G
And used qemu-img convert
$ sudo qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O qcow2 CentOS-7-ppc64le-GenericCloud-2003.qcow2 /data/kvm_images/centos7-vm1.qcow2
I then created a file centos7-vm1.setup.yaml
#cloud-config
password: xxxxxxxxxx
chpasswd: { expire: False }
ssh_pwauth: True
hostname: centos7-vm1
and run
$ sudo cloud-localds centos7-vm1.iso centos7-vm1.setup.yaml
Been trying to create my first VM with KVM but getting a cryptic error from virt-install. It’s saying I have a ‘unrecognized arguments’ but does not say which argument:
$ sudo virt-install
> --name centos7_vm1
> --memory 1024
> --disk /data/kvm_images/centos7-vm1.qcow2,device=disk
> --disk /data/kvm_images/centos7-vm1.iso,device=cdrom
> --os-type linux
> --os-variant centos7.0
> --virt-type kvm
> --graphics none
> --network default
> --import
usage: virt-install --name NAME --memory MB STORAGE INSTALL [options]
virt-install: error: unrecognized arguments:
$
Looking at docs and general googling cant work out what is wrong. Ime running CentOS 7, virt-install 1.5.0.
$ ls -l /data/kvm_images
total 70584
-rw------- 1 qemu qemu 26847870976 May 11 00:06 centos7-docker.qcow2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 374784 May 11 14:35 centos7-vm1.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68026368 May 11 14:02 centos7-vm1.qcow2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104 May 11 14:33 centos7-vm1.setup.yaml
$
Here are what I did to get this far
The first thing I did was download the image
$ wget wget https://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/CentOS-7-ppc64le-GenericCloud-2003.qcow2
Then checked it seemed OK
$ qemu-img info CentOS-7-ppc64le-GenericCloud-2003.qcow2
image: CentOS-7-ppc64le-GenericCloud-2003.qcow2c
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 8.0G (8589934592 bytes)
disk size: 395M
cluster_size: 65536
Format specific information:
compat: 1.1
lazy refcounts: false
Then I resized it to twenty-five GB
$ qemu-img resize CentOS-7-ppc64le-GenericCloud-2003.qcow2 25G
And used qemu-img convert
$ sudo qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O qcow2 CentOS-7-ppc64le-GenericCloud-2003.qcow2 /data/kvm_images/centos7-vm1.qcow2
I then created a file centos7-vm1.setup.yaml
#cloud-config
password: xxxxxxxxxx
chpasswd: { expire: False }
ssh_pwauth: True
hostname: centos7-vm1
and run
$ sudo cloud-localds centos7-vm1.iso centos7-vm1.setup.yaml
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I couldn't find any documentation about these parameter being deprecated or dropped, assuming this is a bug.
Testing oVirt Node in automation we use a call:
virt-install -d
--name "$name"
--boot menu=off
--memory $MAX_VM_MEM
--vcpus $MAX_VM_CPUS
--cpu host
--location "${CENTOS_INSTALLATION_SOURCE}"
--extra-args "inst.ks=file:///node-install.ks console=ttyS0 inst.sshd=1"
--initrd-inject $ksfile
--check disk_size=off,path_in_use=off
--graphics none
--noreboot
--wait -1
--os-variant rhel8.5
--noautoconsole
--rng /dev/urandom
--network network:${LIBVIRT_NETWORK},model=virtio
--disk path=$diskimg,bus=virtio,cache=unsafe,discard=unmap,format=qcow2
--disk path=$squashfs,readonly=on,device=disk,bus=virtio,serial=livesrc
> $logfile 2>&1 || die "virt-install failed"
which worked fine on CentOS Stream 8 but is now failing on CentOS Stream 9 with:
virt-install: error: unrecognized arguments: inst.sshd=1 console=ttyS0
Hi, can you please provide the debug log as well? I've noticed that you already run the command with `-d`.
Sandro, QE did not reproduce it. Could it be a params quoting problem? If you still hit the problem, please provide versions of packages you used and debug log from the installation. Thanks.
It was indeed a quoting problem, sorry for the noise |