CentOS - Apr 2007 - Wow, virt-managerin Centos5 is very fussy!

If I tell it to use an NFS source (eg nfs://server/mnt/cdrom) then itin Centos5
tries to do a CIFS mount instead (I can see it running mount.cifs and
in the xterm I ran virt-manager from it then asks for a password).  Wow.

If I tell it to use an lvm2 volume (/dev/VolGroup00/xentest - already
created at 1Gb) then it goes through, calculates the amount of space
required etc etc and then barfs with no error message beyond "transaction
error".

The only way I can get it to work is by letting it create a file (eg
/xen/test1) and installing via http  (why doesn't it allow file://
type install sources?  Hmmph!).

(Note: I have selinux disabled, so that shouldn't be a problem).

Fortunately that succeeded; I told it to install the guest without lvm,
and so I could then losetup the file to get to the raw filesystem after
the install completed and do a dump.  In future I can make a file system
from this template and build my own config file, avoiding virt-manager
totally.

virt-manager... guh!

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rgds
Stephen

Hi Stephen,
> If I tell it to use an NFS source (eg nfs://server/mnt/cdrom) then itin
Centos5 tries to do a CIFS mount instead (I can see it running mount.cifs and
> in the xterm I ran virt-manager from it then asks for a password).  Wow.
The correct syntax is:

nfs:nfs-server:/mnt/cdrom

I think I found it in the anaconda documentation, or in the FC6 Install
guide.

Bye!

Stephen Harris wrote:
> The only way I can get it to work is by letting it create a file (eg
> /xen/test1) and installing via http  (why doesn't it allow file://
> type install sources?  Hmmph!).
I'd be very worried if the Dom-U could look at file:// urls on my Dom-0...

- KB

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