Using livemedia-creator with RHEL7

[Lukas Zapletal]

Hello,

I build live images of RHEL/CentOS 7 with traditional tools [1] and I am
wondering if I could use Lorax utilities to do the same. I understand
that RHEL7 has dated Anaconda and Yum, but maybe I do things wrong:

[***@lzapx foreman-discovery-image]$ sudo livemedia-creator --make-iso --iso /mnt/data/isos/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1511.iso --ks fdi-image.ks
2016-03-01 13:42:20,604: disk_size = 1026MiB
2016-03-01 13:42:20,605: disk_img = /var/tmp/disk7vld5vjj.img
2016-03-01 13:42:20,605: install_log = /home/lzap/work/foreman-discovery-image/virt-install.log
2016-03-01 13:42:20,638: Running virt-install.
2016-03-01 13:42:21,532: Processing logs from ('127.0.0.1', 53448)
...
2016-03-01 13:42:51,827: Installation error detected. See logfile.
2016-03-01 13:42:51,828: Shutting down LiveOS-0b814a3b-331d-4c21-9560-dd8f291557be
Domain LiveOS-0b814a3b-331d-4c21-9560-dd8f291557be destroyed

Domain LiveOS-0b814a3b-331d-4c21-9560-dd8f291557be has been undefined

2016-03-01 13:42:52,093: Shutting down log processing
2016-03-01 13:42:52,093: unmounting the iso
2016-03-01 13:42:52,125: Install failed: virt_install failed on line: 12:42:46,593 CRIT anaconda: Traceback (most recent call last):#012#012 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/simpleline/base.py", line 348, in _mainloop#012 prompt = last_screen.prompt(self._screens[-1][1])#012#012 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/hubs/summary.py", line 85, in prompt#012 raise CmdlineError(errtxt)#012#012CmdlineError: The following mandatory spokes are not completed:#012Installation Destination
2016-03-01 13:42:52,126: Removing bad disk image
2016-03-01 13:42:52,126: ERROR: Image creation failed: virt_install failed on line: 12:42:46,593 CRIT anaconda: Traceback (most recent call last):#012#012 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/simpleline/base.py", line 348, in _mainloop#012 prompt = last_screen.prompt(self._screens[-1][1])#012#012 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/hubs/summary.py", line 85, in prompt#012 raise CmdlineError(errtxt)#012#012CmdlineError: The following mandatory spokes are not completed:#012Installation Destination

[***@lzapx foreman-discovery-image]$ cat fdi-image.ks | paste
http://sprunge.us/dQWA

If that's not possible, are there plans to backport things into RHEL7?

Thanks for advice!

[1] https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-discovery-image

[Brian C. Lane]

Post by Lukas Zapletal
Hello,
I build live images of RHEL/CentOS 7 with traditional tools [1] and I am
wondering if I could use Lorax utilities to do the same. I understand
2016-03-01 13:42:20,604: disk_size = 1026MiB
2016-03-01 13:42:20,605: disk_img = /var/tmp/disk7vld5vjj.img
2016-03-01 13:42:20,605: install_log = /home/lzap/work/foreman-discovery-image/virt-install.log
2016-03-01 13:42:20,638: Running virt-install.
2016-03-01 13:42:21,532: Processing logs from ('127.0.0.1', 53448)
...
2016-03-01 13:42:51,827: Installation error detected. See logfile.
2016-03-01 13:42:51,828: Shutting down LiveOS-0b814a3b-331d-4c21-9560-dd8f291557be
Domain LiveOS-0b814a3b-331d-4c21-9560-dd8f291557be destroyed
Domain LiveOS-0b814a3b-331d-4c21-9560-dd8f291557be has been undefined
2016-03-01 13:42:52,093: Shutting down log processing
2016-03-01 13:42:52,093: unmounting the iso
2016-03-01 13:42:52,125: Install failed: virt_install failed on line: 12:42:46,593 CRIT anaconda: Traceback (most recent call last):#012#012 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/simpleline/base.py", line 348, in _mainloop#012 prompt = last_screen.prompt(self._screens[-1][1])#012#012 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/hubs/summary.py", line 85, in prompt#012 raise CmdlineError(errtxt)#012#012CmdlineError: The following mandatory spokes are not completed:#012Installation Destination
2016-03-01 13:42:52,126: Removing bad disk image
2016-03-01 13:42:52,126: ERROR: Image creation failed: virt_install failed on line: 12:42:46,593 CRIT anaconda: Traceback (most recent call last):#012#012 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/simpleline/base.py", line 348, in _mainloop#012 prompt = last_screen.prompt(self._screens[-1][1])#012#012 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/hubs/summary.py", line 85, in prompt#012 raise CmdlineError(errtxt)#012#012CmdlineError: The following mandatory spokes are not completed:#012Installation Destination

That's anaconda's way of telling you that the disk setup didn't work.
You should probably read this:

https://rhinstaller.github.io/lorax/livemedia-creator.html#kickstarts

which covers converting live spin kickstarts and talks about things that
are required. In general your kickstart should work unattended when
running it with Anaconda in a VM with the boot.iso.

You should also look at the example kickstarts in /usr/share/doc/lorax/

Post by Lukas Zapletal
http://sprunge.us/dQWA

Looks like you are missing:

clearpart --all --initlabel

It starts out with a blank disk, without the clearpart it will not use
the blank disk to prevent accidental data loss on disks with unknown
partitioning.

You should also add the 'shutdown' command to the kickstart to make sure
it shuts down the VM when it is finished.

Good luck!