Xen users - Nov 2009 - Installation of DomU fails from a working TFTP in virt-manager, CentOS

I am having a TFTP for installing Ubuntu 9.04 from which I have been
able to install successfully Ubuntu on client machines on network.
My TFTP ,DHCP and Apache which has the image for installation are all
on Ubuntu machine.
There is another machine on which my previous attempts to install Xen
from source failed.
So I installed CentOS since it comes with a pre compiled Xenified kernel as
mentioned on wiki
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/DistributionSupport

Now using virt-manager I wanted to install Ubuntu as DomU so I created
a config file for the guest OS but then after taking the image from
TFTP i.e. vmlinuz and initrd the installation of guest OS hangs in
between the same has occurred with me when I used a CD of Ubuntu to
install Guest OS on CentOS as Dom0 ,I did changed the CD and also
changed the Guest OS also to many other distros like
CentOS,Fedora,Open Suse ,Debian but it all failed since machine hanged
in between ,
as far as hardware is concerned I am having 4GB RAM and Core2Duo
processor so it should ideall not be a hardware problem the Bios has
Intel VT support also.

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On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Tapas Mishra <tapas@abhitech.com> wrote:
> Now using virt-manager I wanted to install Ubuntu as DomU so I created
> a config file for the guest OS but then after taking the image from
> TFTP
why use tftp?

I usually do it with debootstrap, but it might be easier for you to
start with HVM then convert to PV guest if necessary. Something like
this for jaunty (start reading from "Install Ubuntu Karmic Koala Sever
in HVM DomU")

http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/setup-ubuntu-9-10-server-pv-domu-at-xen-3-4-1-dom0-2-6-31-6-pvops-kernel-on-top-of-fedora-12/

Ubuntu isn''t exactly the easiest OS to run as PV domU, so if you just
want to learn I suggest you start with RHEL/Centos domU, created with
virt-install/virt-manager, using http install.

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On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Tapas Mishra <tapas@abhitech.com>
wrote:
> Ok but then from where do I get that http images that you are
> referring to
Not http image. http install server.
Example of http mirror for Centos that can be used by virt-install:
http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5/os/i386/
> I want to do and is there any way I can save my bandwidth
> on Internet which will be used in installations so that I can also
> install from the CDROM ISO which I am already having.
if you have the DVD iso, you can just create a local http server with
httpd and make the files available, for example by mounting the ISO
under /var/www/html/centos. You can then access it using
http://your_server_ip_address/centos (when using default httpd
settings).

Creating http install server from CDROM ISO is possible,  but slightly
harder. You need to create a special directory structure. For example,
CD1 iso is mounted on /var/www/html/centos/CD1, CD2 is mounted on
/var/www/html/centos/CD2, and so on.

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