Re: [Xen-users] installing a vm with virt-install

Shriram R
Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:27:31 -0000

my suggestion would be to look at one of the centos mirror sites, say
like this
ftp.usf.edu/centos/5.1/os/i386/
or whatever the right url is..

i gave this location to virt install.
bottom line: The net install method works for virt install. So, you
could look at those directories, see if you are missing any meta file
that virt install requires (but i doubt it)

Sadique Puthen wrote:
> Daniel McBrearty wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am new to xen, trying to get things going on a new CentOS install. I
>> have xen installed fine, and "xm list" shows Domain-0 is OK.
>>
>> I am trying to use virt-install (or it''s GUI equiv through
>> virt-manager) to set up a new VM. I am trying to give a local empty
>> file file (created with dd as per docs)
>
> Not required to create it via dd. virt-manager or virt-install would
> automatically create the file backend for you.
>
>>  as the hard disc, and get it
>> to install from an iso file. Every time I give the location for the
>> iso file, I get the error:
>>
>> ERROR:  Could not find an installable distribution the install location
>>
>
> Are you trying to install a paravirtual guest or a fully virt?
>
>> I have tried giving the full path to the ISO, the path to the
>> containing directory, also ftp:// ... to the directory on an external
>> server. Always the same thing. I''ve also tried DamnSmallLinux
and
>> Debian iso''s
>>
>> what am I doing wrong? what is the easy way to do this?
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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