[Fedora-xen] Question to virt-install and fully virt. guests (virt cd-rom)

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 07:59:33PM +0100, Thomas Trepper wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> i have a problem with 'virt-install' as follows:
> 
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> [root at gandalf ~]# uname -a: Linux gandalf 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen #1 SMP 
> Fri Nov 10 12:57:36 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> 
> [root at gandalf ~]# grep vmx /proc/cpuinfo
> flags           : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36 
> clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm constant_tsc pni 
> monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
> flags           : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36 
> clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm constant_tsc pni 
> monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
> 
> 
> 
> [root at gandalf ~]# cat /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities
> xen-3.0-x86_64 hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64
> --------------------------
> 
> 
> Question: If i am going to execute 'virt-install' and if i answer yes to 
> the question, if i would like to create a fully virtualized guest, i 
> have to enter some questions later a virtual cd-rom, but i do not know, 
> what i have to enter here? I tried the iso, mounted iso as ftp or nfs, 
> everything no luck.

You need to either enter the path to the ISO image on the local filesystem,
eg  /some/directory/myos.iso, or the path to the CDROM device /dev/cdrom.

Do not try to mount the ISO image - that won't work - it needs the RAW iso
image, rather than the directory tree.

Regards,
Dan.
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