[Fedora-xen] Trouble installing VM under Xen Server

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:58:59AM +1000, Mike Kearey wrote:
> 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..

Indeed - the whatever URL you give for the install location must be a fully
exploded tree. The virt-install program tries to fetch $URL/images/xen/vmlinuz
and $URL/images/xen/initrd.img.  So pointing at an ISO image won't work/

Regards,
Dan.
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