Resulting QEmu image is not bootable

[Mike]

I can now successfully create an image, however it's not bootable - "disk is not bootable". I'm not really sure what I'm missing.

My JSON file:

{

 "builders":

 [

   {

     "type": "qemu",

     "accelerator": "kvm",

     "headless": false,

     "qemuargs": [

       [ "-m", "2048M" ],

       [ "-smp", "cpus=1,maxcpus=16,cores=4" ]

     ],

     "disk_interface": "virtio",

     "disk_size": 100000,

     "format": "qcow2",

     "net_device": "virtio-net",

      "floppy_dirs": [ "docroot" ],

      "iso_url": "/home/mike/CentOS-6.10-x86_64-minimal.iso",

     "iso_checksum": "0da4a1206e7642906e33c0f155d2f835",

       "iso_checksum_type": "md5",

      "vm_name": "centos6-base.iso",

     "output_directory": "centos6-base-img",

      "http_directory": "docroot",

     "http_port_min": 10082,

     "http_port_max": 10089,

      "ssh_host_port_min": 2222,

     "ssh_host_port_max": 2229,

      "ssh_username": "root",

     "ssh_password": "password",

     "ssh_port": 22,

     "ssh_wait_timeout": "1200s",

      "boot_wait": "10s",

     "boot_command": [

       "<up><wait><tab><wait> text ks=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/base-ks.cfg<enter><wait>"

     ],

      "shutdown_command": "shutdown -P now"

   }

 ],

 "provisioners":

 [

   {

     "type": "shell",

     "inline": [

       "mkdir /mnt/floppy",

       "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy"

     ]

   }

 ]

}

My kickstart:

install

firstboot --disabled

reboot --eject

# Note: this nodename will become the hostname of the machine and

# tells other scripts what machine type to install.

network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --hostname pxy1

rootpw  "password"

key --skip

text

skipx

lang en_US.UTF-8

keyboard us

firewall --disabled

authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512

selinux --disabled

timezone --utc Etc/UTC

bootloader --location=mbr --append="crashkernel=auto"

# Clear any invalid master boot records (required for new drives)

zerombr yes

# Clear the partition table

clearpart --all --initlabel

# Configure basic partitions.

# part swap --recommended

# Auto partition.

autopart

repo --name="CentOS" --baseurl="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/"

repo --name="EPEL" --baseurl="http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/"

%packages

@base

@core

%end

%post --log=/root/kickstart.post.log

%end

Do I need to define a drive in my JSON file? Thanks

[Rickard von Essen]

I guess there is some problem with you settings in the kickstart file compared to the template.json file. I would try and create an image manually and see if that works and try to troubleshoot there. Also have a look at an existing, known good template like bentos 1) and compare with that.

1) https://github.com/chef/bento/blob/master/centos/centos-7.6-x86_64.json

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[Virt Man]

Add "disk_image": "true", in builder section.

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