Chris Tyler
2007-Feb-26 14:21 UTC
[Fedora-xen] Re: Problem creating VM image using virt-manager in FC6
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 08:45 -0500, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:33:52PM +0530, Ashok Thapliyal wrote: > > what is the url that i can give in the install location as it is > asking for > > a http,ftp,nfs location. i don''t know what url to give ,,, > > The URL wanted is the same as the URL you would give to Anaconda if > doing an install off a network media source. eg, it should be a URL > pointing to the top level installation tree. > > http://download.fedora.devel.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/That will fetch all the files over the Internet, which may be slow (especially if you are experimenting and trying several installations). As an alternative, you can use a DVD as a local installation medium by serving it through Apache: # yum install -y httpd # setenforce 0 # temporary to enable httpd DVD access # ln -s /media/dvd /var/www/html/fedora # service httpd start Change /media/dvd to wherever your DVD is mounted (or you can use a DVD image mounted with the loopback option), then use http://dom0_ip_address/fedora/ as the install location (do not use 127.0.0.1 as the dom0_ip_address, because it will refer the guest domain to itself). -- Chris Tyler Author - Professor - Consultant