[et-mgmt-tools] win xp in kvm

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:07:18PM -0500, Samuel de Champlain wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:56:00PM -0500, Brian L Scipioni wrote:
> > > I just found out that you can still do a WinXP SP2 install from your
> > > CD/DVD drive by using the virt-install CLI (it asks you the same
> > > questions as python-virtinst).
> > >
> > > Daniel - how does that jibe with your DBus problem theory?
> > > The new greying-out of the CD/DVD device seems a python-virtinst issue
> > > since the CLI still permits it.
> >
> > I have fixed the DBus problems upstream
> >
> >
> > http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-manager--devel?cs=43d82ba67ffa
> >
> > And will submit updates to current Fedora releases too.
> >
> 
> I tried virt-install and got as far as the following:
> 
> What is the virtual CD image, CD device or install location?
> /media/WXPVOL_EN/SETUP.EXE

That isn't a CDROM device, or an ISO image. You want /dev/cdrom or
equivalent.


Dan.
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