libvirt users - Feb 2020 - ERROR Could not find an installable distribution at ....

Hi,

I am trying to set up alpine Linux Guest OS using the below command

#virt-install --name=mfecdrupalalphine
--file=/linuxkvmguestosdisk/var/lib/libvirt/images/mfecdrupalalphine.img
--file-size=100 --nonsparse --vcpus=2 --ram=6096 --network=bridge:br0
--os-type=linux --os-variant=alpinelinux3.8 --graphics none
--location=/linuxkvmguestosdisk/var/lib/libvirt/isos/alpine-standard-3.11.3-x86_64.iso
--extra-args="console=ttyS0"

Starting install...
Retrieving file .treeinfo...

                              |    0 B  00:00:00
Retrieving file content...

                              |    0 B  00:00:00
ERROR    Could not find an installable distribution at
'/linuxkvmguestosdisk/var/lib/libvirt/isos/alpine-standard-3.11.3-x86_64.iso':
The URL could not be accessed, maybe you mistyped?

The location must be the root directory of an install tree.
See virt-install man page for various distro examples.
Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
If it was, you can restart your domain by running:
  virsh --connect qemu:///system start mfecdrupalalphine
otherwise, please restart your installation.

The iso file do exist as per the below details
ls -l
/linuxkvmguestosdisk/var/lib/libvirt/isos/alpine-standard-3.11.3-x86_64.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127926272 Feb 12 17:49
/linuxkvmguestosdisk/var/lib/libvirt/isos/alpine-standard-3.11.3-x86_64.iso
#

Any clue? I look forward to hearing from you and thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Kaushal

On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 22:46 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to set up alpine Linux Guest OS using the below command
> 
> #virt-install --name=mfecdrupalalphine
--file=/linuxkvmguestosdisk/var/lib/libvirt/images/mfecdrupalalphine.img
--file-size=100 --nonsparse --vcpus=2 --ram=6096 --network=bridge:br0
--os-type=linux --os-variant=alpinelinux3.8 --graphics none
--location=/linuxkvmguestosdisk/var/lib/libvirt/isos/alpine-standard-3.11.3-x86_64.iso
--extra-args="console=ttyS0"
> 
> Starting install...
> Retrieving file .treeinfo...                                               
|    0 B  00:00:00
> Retrieving file content...                                                 
|    0 B  00:00:00
> ERROR    Could not find an installable distribution at
'/linuxkvmguestosdisk/var/lib/libvirt/isos/alpine-standard-3.11.3-x86_64.iso':
The URL could not be accessed, maybe you mistyped?
> 
> The location must be the root directory of an install tree.
> See virt-install man page for various distro examples.
The --location option is used when installing from a tree, which is
usually a URL like

  http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-amd64/

Since you're installing from a local .iso image, you need to use
the --cdrom option instead.

That won't work with --extra-args, but luckily the Alpine installer
is smart enough to figure out that there's no graphical console
connected to the guest and use ttyS0 automatically :)

-- 
Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization