I just installed Fedora 8 and the Fedora Xen packages. I have been
trying to get a variety of VMs installed, but the most basic one is just
a Fedora guest VM. Please correct me if I am wrong, but the correct
tool is "virt-install". It asks a number of questions, but the last
is
"What is the install location?" I finally found an excerpt from a
book
that had
"http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386" as
the
answer. But that is not correct it is actually:
"http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*6*/i386/os",
but that is for core 6, not 7 or Fedora 8. And the file tree does not
have a
"http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*8*/i386/os".
Is there no place where fc8''s files are posted? Or are we supposed to
specify 6? I would have said okay, except I started getting messages
like this:
4gb seg fixup, process beagle-build-in (pid 1793), cs:ip 73:0811cbff
printk: 5990213 messages suppressed.
So there seems to be a problem. I found this message thread saying
there is a problem usiing the fc6 install location.
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-11/msg00034.html
If anyone knows where the fc8 location is please respond! Thank you.
Fred
Frederick N. Brier wrote:> I just installed Fedora 8 and the Fedora Xen packages. I have been > trying to get a variety of VMs installed, but the most basic one is just > a Fedora guest VM. Please correct me if I am wrong, but the correct > tool is "virt-install". It asks a number of questions, but the last is > "What is the install location?" I finally found an excerpt from a book > that had > "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386" as the > answer. But that is not correct it is actually: > "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*6*/i386/os", > but that is for core 6, not 7 or Fedora 8. And the file tree does not > have a > "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*8*/i386/os". > Is there no place where fc8''s files are posted? Or are we supposed to > specify 6?No. Core and Extras repositories have been merged with the release of Fedora 7 and the location has changed to "Releases. An example mirror would be http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ Refer http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Fedora8VirtQuickStart Rahul
Frederick N. Brier wrote:> I just installed Fedora 8 and the Fedora Xen packages. I have been > trying to get a variety of VMs installed, but the most basic one is just > a Fedora guest VM. Please correct me if I am wrong, but the correct > tool is "virt-install". It asks a number of questions, but the last isYou can also use virt-manager> "What is the install location?" I finally found an excerpt from a book > that had > "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386" as the > answer. But that is not correct it is actually: > "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*6*/i386/os", > but that is for core 6, not 7 or Fedora 8. And the file tree does not > have aIf F8 will suffice, whatever you already installed from is fine. btw You need to tell use whether you''re using hardware virtualisation (hvm) or paravirtualisation. The answers are different. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa@coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa@coco.merseine.nu -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 02:44:12AM -0500, Frederick N. Brier wrote:> I just installed Fedora 8 and the Fedora Xen packages. I have been > trying to get a variety of VMs installed, but the most basic one is just > a Fedora guest VM. Please correct me if I am wrong, but the correct > tool is "virt-install". It asks a number of questions, but the last is > "What is the install location?" I finally found an excerpt from a book > that had > "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386" as the > answer. But that is not correct it is actually: > "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*6*/i386/os", > but that is for core 6, not 7 or Fedora 8. And the file tree does not > have a > "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*8*/i386/os". > Is there no place where fc8''s files are posted? Or are we supposed to > specify 6? I would have said okay, except I started getting messages > like this:Fedora Core & Extras mered during the F7 release, so the download URLs changed style slightly eg, i386 F8 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/ eg, x86_64 F7 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/ Basically, you always want the URL ending in ''/os/'' for your release. You can also use nfs:// or ftp:// URLs. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
/usr/sbin/virt-install --name fx6foo \ --paravirt \ --ram 256 \ --nographics \ --file-size 10 \ --file /dev/zulu_images/fx6foo \ --location http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/ ^^ That kind of thing. The man page has a few examples right at the end. On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:27:34 +0000 "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 02:44:12AM -0500, Frederick N. Brier wrote: > > I just installed Fedora 8 and the Fedora Xen packages. I have been > > trying to get a variety of VMs installed, but the most basic one is > > just a Fedora guest VM. Please correct me if I am wrong, but the > > correct tool is "virt-install". It asks a number of questions, but > > the last is "What is the install location?" I finally found an > > excerpt from a book that had > > "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386" as > > the answer. But that is not correct it is actually: > > "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*6*/i386/os", > > but that is for core 6, not 7 or Fedora 8. And the file tree does > > not have a > > "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*8*/i386/os". > > Is there no place where fc8''s files are posted? Or are we supposed > > to specify 6? I would have said okay, except I started getting > > messages like this: > > Fedora Core & Extras mered during the F7 release, so the download URLs > changed style slightly > > eg, i386 F8 > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/ > > eg, x86_64 F7 > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/ > > Basically, you always want the URL ending in ''/os/'' for your release. > > You can also use nfs:// or ftp:// URLs. > > Regards, > Dan.-- Regards, John Maclean MSc (DIC) +44 7739 171 531
I have continued to experiment creating VMs and blowing them away using a variety of storage and other options. I want to be able to create a Fedora 8 Guest VM, install a number of packages, configure them, and then save it as a template. Then copy the template and install it. The file storage options seemed the best, but it apparently has flaws for speed and integrity. I created one using LVM in the guest, but read that was unnecessary overhead and made it difficult to mount the images. So I tried to create one by deleting the volumes and that seemed to work, but it still created a partition with the file system inside and I could not mount it. The blktap driver was recommended if you were not going to use an LVM in the guest or Dom0, but I do not know how to invoke virt-install to create a simple blktap driver based ext3 file system in a file. What are virt-install parameters do you use to specify using the blktap driver to a file? And if there are any misconceptions in my message, please feel free to trounce on them. If there is a wiki or man page, please just give me the URL. Thank you. Fred John Maclean wrote:> /usr/sbin/virt-install --name fx6foo \ > --paravirt \ > --ram 256 \ > --nographics \ > --file-size 10 \ > --file /dev/zulu_images/fx6foo \ > --location > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/ > > > ^^ That kind of thing. The man page has a few examples right at the end. > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:27:34 +0000 "Daniel P. Berrange" > <berrange@redhat.com> wrote: > > >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 02:44:12AM -0500, Frederick N. Brier wrote: >> >>> I just installed Fedora 8 and the Fedora Xen packages. I have been >>> trying to get a variety of VMs installed, but the most basic one is >>> just a Fedora guest VM. Please correct me if I am wrong, but the >>> correct tool is "virt-install". It asks a number of questions, but >>> the last is "What is the install location?" I finally found an >>> excerpt from a book that had >>> "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386" as >>> the answer. But that is not correct it is actually: >>> "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*6*/i386/os", >>> but that is for core 6, not 7 or Fedora 8. And the file tree does >>> not have a >>> "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*8*/i386/os". >>> Is there no place where fc8''s files are posted? Or are we supposed >>> to specify 6? I would have said okay, except I started getting >>> messages like this: >>> >> Fedora Core & Extras mered during the F7 release, so the download URLs >> changed style slightly >> >> eg, i386 F8 >> >> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/ >> >> eg, x86_64 F7 >> >> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/ >> >> Basically, you always want the URL ending in ''/os/'' for your release. >> >> You can also use nfs:// or ftp:// URLs. >> >> Regards, >> Dan. >> > > >