Hi Xen Users, I am using virt-install for HVM domain instllation. Form DVD it is fine, but how I can use virt-install with cds. How i can give all CDs location to virt-install. #virt-install --debug --name=el5 --ram=400 --vcpus=8 -c /tmp/el5-dvd.iso --file=/tmp/el5 -s 10 --vnc --hvm 2>&1 | tee virt.log Anybody have idea. would be a great help. Thanks, Trilok _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi Xen Users, I am using virt-install for HVM domain instllation. Form DVD it is fine, but how I can use virt-install with cds. How i can give all CDs location to virt-install. #virt-install --debug --name=el5 --ram=400 --vcpus=8 -c /tmp/el5-dvd.iso --file=/tmp/el5 -s 10 --vnc --hvm 2>&1 | tee virt.log Anybody have idea. would be a great help. Thanks, Trilok _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
trilok nuwal wrote:> Hi Xen Users, > > I am using virt-install for HVM domain instllation. Form DVD it is > fine, but how I can use virt-install with cds. How i can give all CDs > location to virt-install. > > #virt-install --debug --name=el5 --ram=400 --vcpus=8 -c > /tmp/el5-dvd.iso --file=/tmp/el5 -s 10 --vnc --hvm 2>&1 | tee virt.log > > Anybody have idea. would be a great help. >Make a DVD.iso. Would you like me to publish my script to do so? It''s a rebuild of hte old one CentOS uses, but rebuilt to actually work with RHEL 5, which has this nutty freaking split-up of the RPM''s into different directories and some real oddness in the comps*.xml files to group the software as part of their software subscription structures. Frankly, I''m not thrilled with RHEL 5 and consider the cost of fealing with the licensing to be more than the benefit of having direct vendor support at installation time, since I''m generally far more skilled and experienced than the flower few tiers of their tech support and mail *them* the patches to make things work. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I recently installed RHEL 5 (fully-virtual though) using the 6-CD''s with the HTTP install method. I used the Xen hosts'' httpd instance, created a rhel5 directory in /var/www/html (default HTTP root location). Inside the rhel5, I made 6 directories named disc1, disc2, etc... to use as mount points. Open a web browser and make sure you can open the location first. I booted up the VM with the first disc ISO. At the boot: menu, type "linux askmethod" and it''ll ask in the text-mode area of the installer what method you want to install using. Select HTTP and tell it the hostname and directory of where the discs can be found. The system should boot into anaconda and finish fine. Good luck trilok nuwal wrote:> > Hi Xen Users, > > I am using virt-install for HVM domain instllation. Form DVD it is > fine, but how I can use virt-install with cds. How i can give all CDs > location to virt-install.#virt-install --debug --name=el5 --ram=400 --vcpus=8 -c> /tmp/el5-dvd.iso --file=/tmp/el5 -s 10 --vnc --hvm 2>&1 | tee virt.log > Anybody have idea. would be a great help. >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Thanks Nathan, I could try this one. -Trilok On 7/27/07, Nathan Widmyer <lighthousej@gmail.com> wrote:> > > I recently installed RHEL 5 (fully-virtual though) using the 6-CD''s with > the HTTP install method. > > I used the Xen hosts'' httpd instance, created a rhel5 directory in > /var/www/html (default HTTP root location). Inside the rhel5, I made 6 > directories named disc1, disc2, etc... to use as mount points. Open a web > browser and make sure you can open the location first. I booted up the VM > with the first disc ISO. At the boot: menu, type "linux askmethod" and > it''ll ask in the text-mode area of the installer what method you want to > install using. Select HTTP and tell it the hostname and directory of where > the discs can be found. The system should boot into anaconda and finish > fine. > > Good luck > > trilok nuwal wrote: > > > > Hi Xen Users, > > > > I am using virt-install for HVM domain instllation. Form DVD it is > > fine, but how I can use virt-install with cds. How i can give all CDs > > location to virt-install. > > > > #virt-install --debug --name=el5 --ram=400 --vcpus=8 -c > > /tmp/el5-dvd.iso --file=/tmp/el5 -s 10 --vnc --hvm 2>&1 | tee virt.log > > Anybody have idea. would be a great help. > > > >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi, In virt-insall i want to pass the kickstart configuration file as an argument. Form the virt-install helps, it look like -x options is available for paravirt domain only not for HVM domain. Is it correct ? -x EXTRA, --extra-args=EXTRA Additional arguments to pass to the installer with paravirt guests Second Can we pass this configuration file at NFS location or http only ?. Beacuse i found problem in passing the file at nfs location to make my installation as silent install. I think you are clear what i want. Trilok On 7/27/07, Nathan Widmyer <lighthousej@gmail.com> wrote:> > This kind of got me initially too. > If you can open a web browser to that http://host/rhel5/disc1 and get the > first disc, your hostname is just going to be what you put for ''host'' and > your path is just going to be ''rhel5''. The installer will construct the url > (including the disc1) for you. > > Take a look at part 2.5.1 of the RHEL 5 install guide: > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-steps-network-installs-x86.html > > > For more information but what I told you will get you off the ground. > > Good luck, > Nathan > > On 7/27/07, trilok nuwal < tc.nuwal@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > That i got, but tell me how i specify the cd location its like > > http://host/rhel5/disc1 or some thing different. > > > > On 7/27/07, Nathan Widmyer <lighthousej@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > oops, I did not mention it (and hopefully you realized) that you''ll > > > have to actually mount the iso''s to the mount points before you open a web > > > browser and check that you can read the discs. > > > > > > On 7/27/07, trilok nuwal <tc.nuwal@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Thanks Nathan, I could try this one. > > > > -Trilok > > > > > > > > On 7/27/07, Nathan Widmyer < lighthousej@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I recently installed RHEL 5 (fully-virtual though) using the > > > > > 6-CD''s with the HTTP install method. > > > > > > > > > > I used the Xen hosts'' httpd instance, created a rhel5 directory in > > > > > /var/www/html (default HTTP root location). Inside the rhel5, I made 6 > > > > > directories named disc1, disc2, etc... to use as mount points. Open a web > > > > > browser and make sure you can open the location first. I booted up the VM > > > > > with the first disc ISO. At the boot: menu, type "linux askmethod" and > > > > > it''ll ask in the text-mode area of the installer what method you want to > > > > > install using. Select HTTP and tell it the hostname and directory of where > > > > > the discs can be found. The system should boot into anaconda and finish > > > > > fine. > > > > > > > > > > Good luck > > > > > > > > > > trilok nuwal wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Xen Users, > > > > > > > > > > > > I am using virt-install for HVM domain instllation. Form DVD it > > > > > > is > > > > > > fine, but how I can use virt-install with cds. How i can give > > > > > > all CDs > > > > > > location to virt-install. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > #virt-install --debug --name=el5 --ram=400 --vcpus=8 -c > > > > > > /tmp/el5-dvd.iso --file=/tmp/el5 -s 10 --vnc --hvm 2>&1 | tee > > > > > > virt.log > > > > > > Anybody have idea. would be a great help. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users