[Fedora-xen] Re: Problem creating VM image using virt-manager in FC6

[Chris Tyler]

On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 08:45 -0500, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:33:52PM +0530, Ashok Thapliyal wrote:
> > what is the url that i can give in the install location as it is
> asking for
> > a http,ftp,nfs location. i don't know what url to give ,,,
> 
> The URL wanted is the same as the URL you would give to Anaconda if
> doing an install off a network media source. eg, it should be a URL
> pointing to the top level installation tree.
> 
> http://download.fedora.devel.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/

That will fetch all the files over the Internet, which may be slow
(especially if you are experimenting and trying several installations).
As an alternative, you can use a DVD as a local installation medium by
serving it through Apache:

# yum install -y httpd
# setenforce 0   # temporary to enable httpd DVD access
# ln -s /media/dvd /var/www/html/fedora
# service httpd start

Change /media/dvd to wherever your DVD is mounted (or you can use a DVD
image mounted with the loopback option), then use
http://dom0_ip_address/fedora/ as the install location (do not use
127.0.0.1 as the dom0_ip_address, because it will refer the guest domain
to itself).

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Chris Tyler
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