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  • VM provisioning issues on KVM (Satellite 6.6)

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    Hi all,


    environment: local dev lab running on laptop
    host: fedora 32 >>> kvm
    guest: rhel7.8 | satellite 6.6


    Scenario: attempting to deploy a VM (rhel 8.1) using satellite
    Issue: vm gets deployed, pxe boots, connects to satellite, starts to download packages but then at around 43% - 49% it stops the download process.

    Findings:
    I then create a host, populate the appropriate fields and deploy vm. It appears instantly on virt-manager (I have not configure console=ttyS0 on tftp file for vm to follow at the terminal console).

    log:

    /var/log/httpd/foreman_access.log
    shows the packages being downloaded up to the point when it fails following VM console...

    pxe configuration for the VM

    # This file was deployed via 'Kickstart default PXELinux clone' template
    
    
    DEFAULT menu
    MENU TITLE Booting into OS installer (ESC to stop)
    TIMEOUT 100
    ONTIMEOUT installer
    
    LABEL installer
      MENU LABEL Kickstart default PXELinux clone
      KERNEL boot/red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-for-x86_64-baseos-kickstart-8-1-110-vmlinuz
      APPEND initrd=boot/red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-for-x86_64-baseos-kickstart-8-1-110-initrd.img ks=http://satellite.xxx.com:8000/unattended/provision?token=8995898c-cfc2-468a-aeed-492d1709dc60  network ksdevice=bootif ks.device=bootif BOOTIF=00-52-54-00-39-20-3a kssendmac ks.sendmac inst.ks.sendmac
    

    I am attaching a screenshot of the VM console showing the error message.
    vm_console

    I believe I should concentrate on foreman logs, but wondering which other logs do you suggest me to look into to.

    I would appreciate comments so I could debug this issue.

    Thanks in advance...

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