[Fedora-xen] problem with xenguest-install at redhat.com

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:00:00PM -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 09:21 +0100, Eric Doutreleau wrote:
> > What is the name of your virtual machine? ntp1
> >  How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 256
> >  What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /var/xen/ntp1.img         
> >  How large would you like the disk to be (in gigabytes)? 10
> >  What is the install location? http://yum.int-evry.fr/core/fc5
> > 
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py", line 460, in ?
> >     main()
> >   File "/usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py", line 451, in main
> >     start_paravirt_install(name, ram, disk, mac, uuid, src, options.extra)
> >   File "/usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py", line 324, in start_paravirt_install
> >     conn = libvirt.open(None)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 39, in open
> >     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpen() failed')
> > libvirt.libvirtError: virConnectOpen() failed
> 
> When I try to install a CentOS 4 domU with virt-install
> (xenguest-install is a symlink to the virt-install tool), I get this
> error:
> 
> ERROR:  Invalid URL location given: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404:
> Content-Length: 345
> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:30:34 GMT
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Content-Type: text/html
> Server: lighttpd/1.3.16
> 
> Here's the command I used:
> 
> virt-install -n aserisk -r 128 -f /dev/vg00/asterisk -s 1.2 -b xenbr0 -p
> -l http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/centos/4.4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/
> 
> I've tried a number of different locations, but everything fails.  I
> have yet to find an example "path/to/tree" example that would help me
> understand what I'm doing wrong.

The CentOS 4 distro does not suppport paravirtualization. You will have to
do full virtualizated installs, which require local ISO image / CDROM.

Dan.
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