Installation of Proxmox on top of KVM/QEMU

Hey guys,

much to my regret, I found out that the new Proxmox 4.0 isn't able to work as a 2-Node-Cluster with an additional quorum disk, due to the new corosync version. So now I'm working on the proposed solution, to add a third adequate cluster member. In practice I want to set up the third member on our additional existing KVM/QEMU server as a very small VM without any storage/resources, just to get the quorum and the necessary amount of safety against split-brain problems. The two other nodes will deliver computing power and local storage (synced via DRBD) to the VMs on the cluster.

So I'm trying to do a regular install on my additional server via libvirt, but I'm not able to get libvirt to work with the provided Proxmox VE 4.0 iso-image:
Code:
virt-install -n pxmx-ext0 -r 512 --disk path=/dev/vg01/pxmx-ext0-disk,sparse=false,bus=virtio,cache=none --disk path=/dev/vg01/pxmx-ext0-swap,sparse=false,bus=virtio,cache=none -b br1,model=virtio -l /media/proxmox -x console=ttyS0,115200 --force --debug

It won't find any useable boot entry (traceback shows that it's trying various options) and stops with the following message:
Code:
Error validating install location: Could not find an installable distribution at '/media/proxmox'

Has anyone already tried to use the official install-image on a libvirt environment or should I just stick to the easier solution and install a regular Debian (which works fine with the netinstall image) and upgrade the Proxmox-Features? I naturally would prefer using the first solution because it would save me some time. Thanks in advance for your help!

Cheers, Johannes
 
Hi
I see no reasons Proxmox should not worlk with virt-install, since we install it daily inside KVM. If virtinstall is not working I would advise you to try virt-manager.
Be aware tha the Proxmox VE installer is not meant to be used over a serial console, so you will need some kind of SDL or VNC display.
 

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