[Fedora-xen] Problem about installing guesting OS with virt-manger of Fedora Core 6

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:19:31PM -0500, taoj2 at cs.rpi.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed the Fedora Core 6 on my computer.
> 
> Now I was trying to install the Fedora Core 6 guesting OS in my computer.
> I use the Virtual Machine Manager to do this.
> 
> First, I create an empty file, box1, like this:
> 
> cat > box1

I think you'll need more than 0 bytes in which to install the guest
OS packages :-)

> I didn't type anthing into the file. SO the file is empty. (Is this a
> correct approach to create a file for the guesting OS storage space ?)

Don't create the file manually - let virt-manager do it for you - it
will give you option to specify the desired size & location

> Then I set the /home/jane/xen/box1 as the storage space to install my
> guesting OS. I chose Fedora COre 6 again as my guest os. The problem is:
> When the installation comes to selecting disk partition part, there is no
> available drive there. I print the screen and attached the picture.

There is no drive because you created a zero byte file. Let virt-manager
create it, in addition it needs to be under /var/lib/xen/images rather
than /home.

Regards,
Dan.
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