[Fedora-xen] Guest Installation via local http fails

Valdas i4varu at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 14 13:35:45 UTC 2007


I think the problem is, when DomU get's it's ip address,DomU has it's own
localhost (127.0.0.1 address), so then it asks you to choose new location
enter eth0 ip address for dom0 machine, and the it will find installation.




Claus Reheis wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> I found some time and thought about playing around with Xen 3.1 in
> Fedora 7!
> I tried to setup Fedora 7 as a para-virtualized guest on a Fedora 7 host
> with help of a nice howto in the O`Reilly book about Fedora what suggest
> the folling steps:
> 
> 1)Setup a network installation server in Dom0:
> 
> setenforce 0
> 
> ln -s /media/disk/ /var/www/html/fedora
> 
> service httpd start
> 
> 2)Start the Installation with virt-manager 
> 
> The installation starts up fine until I can choose the installation
> method!I choose http and after I always get the Error message:
> 
> "Unable to retrieve http://192.168.0.123/fedora//images/stage2.img "
> 
> The strange things are the two *//* !I cant get rid of it!I tried any
> combination who came to my mind, but no success until now...
> 
> When I open Firefox and go to 
> 
> http://192.168.0.123/fedora/images/stage2.img
> 
> or
> 
> localhost/fedora/images/stage2.img
> 
> the file just downloads fine without any error!
> I tried the http installation from a fedora server:
> 
> http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/linux/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/
> 
> No problem either!
> So what is wrong with my attempt to install from the local server?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Claus
> 
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