Xen users - Jul 2011 - XCP 1.1 - having trouble provisioning a CentOS guest over NFS

Hi:

 

I am trying to provision a CentOS 5.5 guest using NFS. I followed the
recommendations on page 23 of
http://www.xen.org/files/XenCloud/guest.pdf but kept getting errors like
these:

 

# Error code: INVALID_SOURCE

# Error parameters: nfs repo
nfs:172.16.0.2:/export/isos/centos-5.5-x86_64, , 

 

Here are the commands that I used:

 

#!/bin/bash

 

set -u -x

 

VM_NAME_LABEL="test-nfs-$$"

 

# Create the VM

VM_UUID=$(xe vm-install template=''CentOS 5 (64-bit)''
new-name-label=$VM_NAME_LABEL)

 

# Disable VNC so that we can use xl console

# URL:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen_Cloud_Platform%3A_Access_to_VM_con
sole

# Citation: Todd Deshane

xe vm-param-set uuid=$VM_UUID other-config:disable_pv_vnc=true 

 

# Configuration stuff.

xe vm-param-set uuid=$VM_UUID VCPUs-max=2 VCPUs-at-startup=2 

xe vm-memory-limits-set uuid=$VM_UUID static-min=2147483648
static-max=2147483648 dynamic-min=2147483648 dynamic-max=2147483648 

xe vm-param-set uuid=$VM_UUID
other-config:disks=''<provision><disk
device="0" size="21474836480" sr=""
bootable="true" type="system"
/></provision>'' 

 

# Set the xenbr0 IP address

NETW_UUID=$(xe network-list bridge=xenbr0 --minimal) 

xe vif-create vm-uuid=$VM_UUID network-uuid=$NETW_UUID device=0

 

# install repository

xe vm-param-set uuid=$VM_UUID
other-config:install-repository="nfs:172.16.0.2:/export/isos/centos-5.5-
x86_64"

 

# Start the VM -- boot off of the network

xe vm-start uuid=$VM_UUID

 

# echo some debug information

set +x

echo "VM_NAME_LABEL  : $VM_NAME_LABEL"

echo "VM_UUID        : $VM_UUID"

echo "NETW_UUID      : $NETW_UUID"

 

How can I debug this? I am able to see this host from other parts of my
network.

 

Note that I also tried different variations of the install-repository
syntax.

 

 

1.  xe vm-param-set uuid=$VM_UUID
other-config:install-repository="nfs://172.16.0.2:/export/isos/centos-5.
5-x86_64"

2.  xe vm-param-set uuid=$VM_UUID
other-config:install-repository="nfs://172.16.0.2/export/isos/centos-5.5
-x86_64"



None of them worked.

 

Thank you,

 

Joe

 



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