With a lot of help and trying things without much of a clue, I think I''ve gotten virt-install to create a machine image, but that machine boots into an Anaconda session that hangs. The error says: Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated. Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: anaconda-base-200610172015.x86_64 Can anyone tell me where this repomd.xml file is supposed to be? Or a way to validate my install tree? Or a better way to build an install tree than turning wget loose on download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64 ? I''ve gone through a couple of sets of instructions that have failed for me in a variety of ways that I don''t seem to be able to cope with. Since someone seems to be able to use Xen, I''m apparently doing something clueless that isn''t covered by those instructions. If someone can provide some guidance, I''d be happy to start over from scratch. Extremely grateful for any hints, Walter