[et-mgmt-tools] PV Lenny install url?

[Cole Robinson]

Dennis J. wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to setup a paravirtualized Debian Lenny on a Centos 5.3 host. 
> With the virt-install that comes with centos/rhel I was only able to 
> install it using HVM and then paravirtualizing it afterwards.
> Now I have compiled more recent version of libvirt and the management tools 
> that support installing Debian Lenny directly but I'm wondering what URL 
> I'm supposed to specify? With centos/rhel I use the path 
> /(...)/centos/5/os/x86_64/ but Debian Lenny apparently uses a different way 
> to organize it's repositories. What would the correct url parameter be for 
> a Lenny 64 bit install?
> 

An example URL that virt-install expects:

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/

However, support for debian URLs isn't available in the python-virtinst
version in 5.3. You'll have to wait for 5.4.

- Cole