Fedora xen - Feb 2007 - Trouble installing VM under Xen Server

Hi,

I am trying to install Xen VM (redhat) under Xen Redhat 5.0 beta.
Using virt-install I have entered the following:

What is the name of your virtual machine? xen01
How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 2000
What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /xen_vm/xen01.img
How large would you like the disk to be (in gigabytes)? 10
Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) yes
What is the install location? nfs:abc:/abc/Unix_Install


Starting install...
ERROR:  Invalid NFS location given: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
''/var/lib/xen/xennfs.sOAI67/images/xen/vmlinuz''


The "abc:/abc/Unix_Install" is pointing to nfs mount point with Redhat
ISO`s (.iso)

Tried using ftp,http,nfs - with no success

Any idea what could be the problem ?

Regards,
      Eyal  

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EyalRi@clal-ins.co.il wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install Xen VM (redhat) under Xen Redhat 5.0 beta.
> Using virt-install I have entered the following:
> 
> What is the name of your virtual machine? xen01
> How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 2000
> What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /xen_vm/xen01.img
> How large would you like the disk to be (in gigabytes)? 10
> Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) yes
> What is the install location? nfs:abc:/abc/Unix_Install
> 
> 
> Starting install...
> ERROR:  Invalid NFS location given: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
''/var/lib/xen/xennfs.sOAI67/images/xen/vmlinuz''
> 
> 
> The "abc:/abc/Unix_Install" is pointing to nfs mount point with
Redhat ISO`s (.iso)
> 
> Tried using ftp,http,nfs - with no success
> 
> Any idea what could be the problem ?
> 
> Regards,
>       Eyal  
In my experience it must be an install _tree_ and not a set of ISO
images. Yes I am aware that we can do NFS installs by pointing at
ISO''s.
But I have not seen it work with a virt install..



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On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:58:59AM +1000, Mike Kearey
wrote:
> EyalRi@clal-ins.co.il wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying to install Xen VM (redhat) under Xen Redhat 5.0 beta.
> > Using virt-install I have entered the following:
> > 
> > What is the name of your virtual machine? xen01
> > How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 2000
> > What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /xen_vm/xen01.img
> > How large would you like the disk to be (in gigabytes)? 10
> > Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) yes
> > What is the install location? nfs:abc:/abc/Unix_Install
> > 
> > 
> > Starting install...
> > ERROR:  Invalid NFS location given: [Errno 2] No such file or
directory: ''/var/lib/xen/xennfs.sOAI67/images/xen/vmlinuz''
> > 
> > 
> > The "abc:/abc/Unix_Install" is pointing to nfs mount point
with Redhat ISO`s (.iso)
> > 
> > Tried using ftp,http,nfs - with no success
> > 
> > Any idea what could be the problem ?
> > 
> > Regards,
> >       Eyal  
> 
> In my experience it must be an install _tree_ and not a set of ISO
> images. Yes I am aware that we can do NFS installs by pointing at
ISO''s.
> But I have not seen it work with a virt install..
Indeed - the whatever URL you give for the install location must be a fully
exploded tree. The virt-install program tries to fetch $URL/images/xen/vmlinuz
and $URL/images/xen/initrd.img.  So pointing at an ISO image won''t
work/

Regards,
Dan.
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EyalRi@clal-ins.co.il wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install Xen VM (redhat) under Xen Redhat 5.0 beta.
>
> Using virt-install I have entered the following:
>
> What is the name of your virtual machine? xen01
>
> How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 2000
>
> What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /xen_vm/xen01.img
>
> How large would you like the disk to be (in gigabytes)? 10
>
> Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) yes
>
> What is the install location? nfs:abc:/abc/Unix_Install
>
>
> Starting install...
>
> ERROR:  Invalid NFS location given: [Errno 2] No such file or 
> directory:
''/var/lib/xen/xennfs.sOAI67/images/xen/vmlinuz''
>
>
> The "abc:/abc/Unix_Install" is pointing to nfs mount point with
Redhat
> ISO`s (.iso)
>
> Tried using ftp,http,nfs - with no success
>
> Any idea what could be the problem ?
>
> Regards,
>
>       Eyal
>
You need to mount and export the ISO tree.

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