CVM Not Starting

Further Detail on hardware.

Bare Metal deployment.

Core i5

Ram: 32GB

Storage: 1TB NVME Cold, 500GB SSD Hot, 64GB Flash for Hypervisor

If the virsh list —all isnt ahowing the cvm I would suggest to reinstall the machine. And while reinstalling choose the nvme disk as the cvm. 

I tried that as well and still no luck getting the CVM to show.

After the installer is ready and you reboot the node. Are you testing it immediately? After the reboot let it rest (grab a coffee for example) as the are scripts running. 
 

do you have a screenshot of the installer screen? (When the reboot is needed)

I’ll redo the install and see if I can capture the prompt.  Nothing is error out from what I can tell. 

I just tested again today and let it sit over night and still no luck.

Here is the screenshot:

Alright. Found article needing to setup accounts.  Ran Virsh List --all and I got this for a output

[admin@NTNX]$ virsh list --all
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: Failed to connect socket to '/run/user/102/libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or directory
 

There is no admin account on AHV. 
 

login with root account on ahv with password nutanix/4u and there you can run virsh.

I have and it reported no VMs running.  Just been going through forms and what not trying to evaluate this solution.  This is not looking promising as a viable solution for a replacement for ESXI.  Rather finicky solution to get spooled up to do testing on.

CE is not for production. The CE installer is not comparable with the commercial foundation process. In normal production you are bound to specific hardware from HCL and there you dont have this issues. 
 

Can you dump the xml from your cvm here? (virsh edit <cvm_machine_name>)

Can you dump the output of virsh list —all here? (When logged in with the root account on ahv)