Fedora xen - Jun 2007 - fedora 7 guest problems under fedora 6 host

I''ve been trying to install fedora 7 i386 as a guest using a fedora 6
x86_64 host (opteron).

If I do a fully virtual HVM install, I always encounter this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237895
really early in the install, so it doesn''t get very far.

If I try to do a paravirt install from the fedora 7 DVD image
(mounted under apache to be accessible on the network), the
virt-manager app crashes as soon as it is about to start the
install.

Anyone have any tips for a successful f7 i386 install under
an f6 dom0?

On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:41:59 +0000
tom.horsley@att.net (Tom Horsley) wrote:
> If I try to do a paravirt install from the fedora 7 DVD image
> (mounted under apache to be accessible on the network), the
> virt-manager app crashes as soon as it is about to start the
> install.
Right. I forgot the Xen version on fc6 can''t do paravirt to
different arch, this one is explained :-).

Anyone ever done something like a dd from the fc7 live dvd to
the virtual machine''s filesystem in a file to get fc7 installed
entirely from the dom0 without booting the VM at all till
everything already exists on the VM''s filesystem?

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:44:44PM -0400, Tom Horsley
wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:41:59 +0000
> tom.horsley@att.net (Tom Horsley) wrote:
> 
> > If I try to do a paravirt install from the fedora 7 DVD image
> > (mounted under apache to be accessible on the network), the
> > virt-manager app crashes as soon as it is about to start the
> > install.
> 
> Right. I forgot the Xen version on fc6 can''t do paravirt to
> different arch, this one is explained :-).
> 
> Anyone ever done something like a dd from the fc7 live dvd to
> the virtual machine''s filesystem in a file to get fc7 installed
> entirely from the dom0 without booting the VM at all till
> everything already exists on the VM''s filesystem?

What if you use QEMU to create the image, and then put the support in?
Copy the kernel from Dom0, make a new initrd, and then boot. Now, if I
could only figure out where my network is located!!!

qemu-img create -f raw debian.img 5G
qemu -cdrom ../../iso/debian-40r0-i386-netinst.iso -hda debian.img -m 256 -boot
d
qemu  -hda debian.img -m 384

brian
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