[Fedora-xen] Trouble installing VM under Xen Server

[Mike Kearey]

EyalRi at clal-ins.co.il wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install Xen VM (redhat) under Xen Redhat 5.0 beta.
> Using virt-install I have entered the following:
> 
> What is the name of your virtual machine? xen01
> How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 2000
> What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /xen_vm/xen01.img
> How large would you like the disk to be (in gigabytes)? 10
> Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) yes
> What is the install location? nfs:abc:/abc/Unix_Install
> 
> 
> Starting install...
> ERROR:  Invalid NFS location given: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/xen/xennfs.sOAI67/images/xen/vmlinuz' 
> 
> 
> The "abc:/abc/Unix_Install" is pointing to nfs mount point with Redhat ISO`s (.iso)
> 
> Tried using ftp,http,nfs - with no success
> 
> Any idea what could be the problem ?
> 
> Regards,
>       Eyal  

In my experience it must be an install _tree_ and not a set of ISO
images. Yes I am aware that we can do NFS installs by pointing at ISO's.
But I have not seen it work with a virt install..




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Cheers,
Michael