xenguest-install.py on FC5-t3

Harry Hoffman hhoffman at ip-solutions.net
Wed Feb 22 00:08:22 UTC 2006


Hi,

I'm looking at the Quickstart under FC5 for Xen and running into trouble.

I've created a disk image using dd to a file and am now stuck as to
where I get the install media.

Can anyone provide a pointer for what args I should be supplying this
script?

Below is what I tried.

Thanks,
Harry


[root at n1-22-30 ~]# xenguest-install.py
What is the name of your virtual machine? ldap
 How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 256
 What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /srv/xen/ldap/ldap.xen
 Invalid source specified.  Please specify an NFS, HTTP, or FTP install
source
What is the install location?
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/
 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py", line 365, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py", line 356, in main
    start_paravirt_install(name, ram, disk, mac, src, options.extra)
  File "/usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py", line 232, in start_paravirt_install
    (kfn, ifn) = get_paravirt_install_image(src)
  File "/usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py", line 196, in
get_paravirt_install_image
    kernel = grabber.urlopen("%s/images/xen/vmlinuz" %(src,))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
444, in urlopen
    return default_grabber.urlopen(url, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
575, in urlopen
    return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
547, in _retry
    return apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
574, in retryfunc
    return URLGrabberFileObject(url, filename=None, opts=opts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
728, in __init__
    self._do_open()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
820, in _do_open
    fo, hdr = self._make_request(req, opener)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
902, in _make_request
    raise URLGrabError(4, _('IOError: %s') % (e, ))
urlgrabber.grabber.URLGrabError: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404:
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:04:03 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:45:33 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 3542
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8





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