<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Thanks, Cole: You are correct! i.e., The lack of a .treeinfo file in the directory was the root case... It appears that the last line provided the vital clue. i.e., The Oracle Linux 6.3 .iso is lacking a .treeinfo file. CentOS, however, includes a .treeinfo file for each of it's installation .iso's: <div style="margin-left: 40px;">san2:/srv/md128/repositories/centos # find . -name .treeinfo ./5.7/os/i386/.treeinfo ./5.7/os/x86_64/.treeinfo ./5.8/os/i386/.treeinfo ./5.8/os/x86_64/.treeinfo ./5.9/os/i386/.treeinfo ./5.9/os/x86_64/.treeinfo ./6.0/os/x86_64/.treeinfo ./6.2/os/i386/.treeinfo ./6.2/os/x86_64/.treeinfo ./6.3/os/i386/.treeinfo ./6.3/os/x86_64/.treeinfo </div> The contents of .treeinfo seem fairly straight-forward: <div style="margin-left: 40px;">san2:/srv/md128/repositories # cat ./centos/6.3/os/x86_64/.treeinfo [general] family = CentOS timestamp = 1341569485.3 variant = totaldiscs = 1 version = 6.3 discnum = 1 packagedir = arch = x86_64 [images-x86_64] kernel = images/pxeboot/vmlinuz initrd = images/pxeboot/initrd.img boot.iso = ../../isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.3-x86_64-netinstall.iso [images-xen] kernel = images/pxeboot/vmlinuz initrd = images/pxeboot/initrd.img [stage2] mainimage = images/install.img </div> ...so I started with the .treeinfo file for CentOS 6.3 and verified that it reflected the contents of the Oracle Linux 6.3 directory as well: <div style="margin-left: 40px;">san2:/srv/md128/repositories/centos # ll ./6.3/os/x86_64/ total 472 -rw-r--r--. 1 59999 59999 14 Jul 6 2012 CentOS_BuildTag -rw-rw-r--. 1 59999 59999 33 Jul 6 2012 .discinfo drwxrwxr-x. 3 59999 59999 17 Jul 6 2012 EFI -rw-rw-r--. 1 59999 59999 212 Jun 23 2012 EULA -rw-rw-r--. 1 59999 59999 18009 Jun 23 2012 GPL drwxr-xr-x. 3 59999 59999 74 Jul 6 2012 images drwxr-xr-x. 2 59999 59999 4096 Jul 6 2012 isolinux drwxrwxr-x. 2 59999 59999 339968 Jul 5 2012 Packages -rw-rw-r--. 1 59999 59999 1354 Jun 23 2012 RELEASE-NOTES-en-US.html drwxr-xr-x. 2 59999 59999 4096 Jul 6 2012 repodata -rw-rw-r--. 1 59999 59999 1706 Jun 23 2012 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 -rw-rw-r--. 1 59999 59999 1730 Jun 23 2012 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Debug-6 -rw-rw-r--. 1 59999 59999 1730 Jun 23 2012 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Security-6 -rw-rw-r--. 1 59999 59999 1734 Jun 23 2012 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Testing-6 -rw-rw-r--. 1 59999 59999 398 Jul 6 2012 .treeinfo san2:/srv/md128/repositories/centos # ll ./6.3/os/x86_64/images/ total 168904 -rw-r--r--. 1 59999 59999 372736 Jul 6 2012 efiboot.img -rw-r--r--. 1 59999 59999 35997696 Jul 6 2012 efidisk.img -rw-r--r--. 1 59999 59999 136585216 Jul 6 2012 install.img drwxr-xr-x. 2 59999 59999 37 Jul 6 2012 pxeboot san2:/srv/md128/repositories/centos # ll ./6.3/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/ total 34756 -rw-r--r--. 1 59999 59999 31596586 Jul 6 2012 initrd.img -rwxr-xr-x. 1 59999 59999 3986608 Jul 6 2012 vmlinuz san2:/srv/md128/repositories/centos # ll ../oracle/6.3/os/x86_64/ total 504 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 33 Feb 8 18:09 EFI -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7041 Feb 8 18:09 EULA -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7041 Feb 8 18:09 eula.en_US -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3334 Feb 8 18:09 eula.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18390 Feb 8 18:09 GPL drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 66 Feb 8 18:09 HighAvailability drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 103 Feb 8 18:09 images drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 18:09 isolinux drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 66 Feb 8 18:09 LoadBalancer -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 196 Feb 8 18:09 media.repo drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 188416 Feb 8 18:10 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2619 Feb 8 18:10 README-en -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7054 Feb 8 18:10 README-en.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29531 Feb 8 18:10 RELEASE-NOTES-en -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32428 Feb 8 18:10 RELEASE-NOTES-en.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29531 Feb 8 18:10 RELEASE-NOTES-x86_64-en -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32428 Feb 8 18:10 RELEASE-NOTES-x86_64-en.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29531 Feb 8 18:10 RELEASE-NOTES-x86-en -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32428 Feb 8 18:10 RELEASE-NOTES-x86-en.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 8 18:10 repodata -> Server/repodata drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 66 Feb 8 18:10 ResilientStorage -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1011 Feb 8 18:10 RPM-GPG-KEY -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1011 Feb 8 18:10 RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 66 Feb 8 18:10 ScalableFileSystem drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 87 Feb 8 18:10 Server -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108 Feb 8 18:10 supportinfo -r--r--r-- 1 root root 6517 Feb 8 18:10 TRANS.TBL drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 66 Feb 8 18:10 UEK2 san2:/srv/md128/repositories/centos # ll ../oracle/6.3/os/x86_64/images/ total 167692 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 376832 Feb 8 18:09 efiboot.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34924544 Feb 8 18:09 efidisk.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136404992 Feb 8 18:09 install.img drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 53 Feb 8 18:09 pxeboot -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 541 Feb 8 18:09 README -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1106 Feb 8 18:09 TRANS.TBL san2:/srv/md128/repositories/centos # ll ../oracle/6.3/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/ total 33668 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30481341 Feb 8 18:09 initrd.img -r--r--r-- 1 root root 441 Feb 8 18:09 TRANS.TBL -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3986992 Feb 8 18:09 vmlinuz </div> ...and then I used the CentOS 6.3 .treeinfo file _verbatim_ to guide virt-install through the process of creating an Oracle 6.3 PV: <div style="margin-left: 40px;">san2:/srv/md128/repositories # cp ./centos/6.3/os/x86_64/.treeinfo ./oracle/6.3/os/x86_64/ </div> Problem solved! Thanks, again! Eric Pretorious Truckee, CA <div> </div><div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> From: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com> To: Eric <epretorious@yahoo.com> Cc: "virt-tools-list@redhat.com" <virt-tools-list@redhat.com> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:15 PM Subject: Re: [virt-tools-list] Unable to Create an Oracle Linux VM Using virt-install or virt-manager </div> On 02/14/2013 03:13 PM, Eric wrote: > Once more, with --debug: > <snip> > > Does this have anything to do with the lack of a .treeinfo as you mentioned > (below), Cole? > I meant debug info for virt-manager, since I'm curious of the root of: Error: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, instance found But I'm 99% sure the root issue with virt-install is the lack of .treeinfo - Cole </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>