[Fedora-xen] Re: [et-mgmt-tools] virt-install question...

[John.Sanabria at ece.uprm.edu]

Thanks a lot, now it works!

regards.

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:51:13AM -0400, John.Sanabria at ece.uprm.edu
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i'm using virt-install and it runs successfully with that command:
>>
>> virt-install -n xengrid2 --vcpus=1 -r 256 -s 4 -f
>> /media/disk/iso/xengrid/xengrid2 -l
>> ftp://mirrors.hpcf.upr.edu/pub/Mirrors/redhat/download.fedora.redhat.com/6/i386/os
>> -p --nographics
>>
>> now, i have a question. What's the kernel image and initrd file used for
>> virt-install in order to carry out the installation process?
>
> When you supply a NFS/HTTP/FTP  url to virt-install, it will take that URL
> and try to fetch the 2 files  $URL/images/xen/vmlinuz and
> $URL/images/xen/initrd.img
> for the remote site. It saves those two files to /var/lib/xen/images and
> then
> boots the VM - the files are removed once the VM has started.
>
>> I need that
>> information because i want use the cobbler/koan tools in order to
>> provision virtual machines remotely, but when i submit the command
>
> You'll want to grab the vmlinuz & initrd.img files out of $URL/images/xen
> and give them to cobbler when setting up the profile.
>
> Dan.
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