<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>I've copied the contents of the Oracle Linux 6.3 installation media to an directory that's exported via NFS:<br><br></div><div style="margin-left:40px;">san2:~ # ls -1 /srv/md128/repositories/<span style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0);">oracle</span>/6.3/os/x86_64/<br>EFI<br>EULA<br>eula.en_US<br><a target="_blank" href="http://eula.py/"><span class="yshortcuts"
id="lw_1360709230_0">eula.py</span></a><br>GPL<br>HighAvailability<br>images<br>isolinux<br>LoadBalancer<br>media.repo<br>Packages<br>README-en<br>README-en.html<br>RELEASE-NOTES-en<br>RELEASE-NOTES-en.html<br>RELEASE-NOTES-x86_64-en<br>RELEASE-NOTES-x86_64-en.html<br>RELEASE-NOTES-x86-en<br>RELEASE-NOTES-x86-en.html<br>repodata<br>ResilientStorage<br>RPM-GPG-KEY<br>RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle<br>ScalableFileSystem<br>Server<br>supportinfo<br>TRANS.TBL<br>UEK2<br></div><br>...and tried to use the directory to install an <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1360709230_1">Oracle Linux</span> VM with virt-install:<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px;">xen2:~
# virt-install -p --name dns2 --ram 786 --disk
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-14945540000000000705f69534353492d73616e315f310000
--location nfs://192.168.0.2/srv/md128/repositories/<span style="color:rgb(255, 0, 127);">oracle</span>/6.3/os/x86_64/ --graphics none<br></div><br>...but virt-install complains:<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px;">Starting install...<br>ERROR Couldn't find xen kernel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux tree.<br></div><br>If I use the NFS respository with virt-manager, virt-manager complains...<br><br>
<div class="jive-quote"><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Error: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, instance found<br></div><br></div>This is a tried-and-true methodology: I use this method for installing CentOS & SuSE regularly:<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px;">san2:~ # ls -1 /srv/md128/repositories/<span style="color:rgb(0, 191,
96);">centos</span>/6.3/os/x86_64/<br>CentOS_BuildTag<br>.discinfo<br>EFI<br>EULA<br>GPL<br>images<br>isolinux<br>Packages<br>RELEASE-NOTES-en-US.html<br>repodata<br>RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6<br>RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Debug-6<br>RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Security-6<br>RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Testing-6<br>.treeinfo<br><br>xen2:~
# virt-install -p --name dns2 --ram 786 --disk
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-14945540000000000705f69534353492d73616e315f310000
--location nfs://192.168.0.2/srv/md128/repositories/<span style="color:rgb(0, 191, 96);">centos</span>/6.3/os/x86_64/ --graphics none<br></div><br>What is it that's different about the Oracle Linux installation media that causes this failure? Is there a workaround?<br><br>Eric Pretorious<br>Truckee, CA </div></body></html>