CentOS virt - Apr 2008 - Installing old Suse as fully virtualized guest: problem with install source

Using CentOS 5.1 with Xen 3.2.
I'm trying to install a fully virtualized system for the first time and 
doing this with an old Suse 9.0 (this probably would run paravirtualized, 
maybe it won't run, anyway, because of hardware problems).
I start with virt-manager and after choosing "fully virtualized" it 
presents me two options for install media: iso image and CD-ROM or DVD, 
but the latter is grayed out. I have the install source on CDs ... Is this 
normal or do I yet need another patch to make it work in xen 3.2?

Kai

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fyi: paravirtualized means the OS is new enough to have extensions to be 
virtualization-aware and support it in order to
not have to emulate all of the hardware completely. The older OS would 
probably run fully virtualized, i.e. in a QEMU
environment.

Michael

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Using CentOS 5.1 with Xen 3.2.
> I'm trying to install a fully virtualized system for the first time and
> doing this with an old Suse 9.0 (this probably would run paravirtualized, 
> maybe it won't run, anyway, because of hardware problems).
> I start with virt-manager and after choosing "fully virtualized"
it
> presents me two options for install media: iso image and CD-ROM or DVD, 
> but the latter is grayed out. I have the install source on CDs ... Is this 
> normal or do I yet need another patch to make it work in xen 3.2?
>
> Kai
>
>

Kai Schaetzl wrote on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:15:24 +0200:
> I start with virt-manager and after choosing "fully virtualized"
it
> presents me two options for install media: iso image and CD-ROM or DVD, 
> but the latter is grayed out.
I created an image from the first CD and tried to install from it as I 
needed that for qemu, anyway. That fails as well, though. The error is
"Unable to complete install 'libvirt.libvirtError
virDomainCreateLinux()
failed POST operation failed. (xend.err 'Error creating domain: long() 
argument must be a string or a number')"
and some more Python traceback stuff.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Some known patch to apply?
Google finds only this single article and I'm not sure if it really 
applies:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.user/33078


Kai

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