Why does interactive Kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 hang on VMWare Environment ?

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Issue

  • Why does interactive Kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 hang on VMWare Environment ?
  • Installation works as expected on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.
  • The interactive %pre scripts start with the following.
chvt 3
exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
  • Kickstart installation on VMWare

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