[Fedora-xen] Newby Help

[Walter Coole]

Thanks for the hint; sorry it took so long for me to try several
different approaches.

I hadn't tried virt-install; I had assumed that virt-manager's Create
Wizard did the equivalent job.

Trying virt-install, this is what my session looked like:

sudo virt-install -n hockey -r 256 -f /xen/fedora/hockey.img -s 4
--nographics --noautoconsole -l
http://192.168.1.117/mirror/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/
Password:


Starting install...
libvir: Xen error : Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByUUID
Retrieving file fedora.cs 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB
00:00
Retrieving file vmlinuz.. 100% |=========================| 1.8 MB
00:00
Retrieving file initrd.im 100% |=========================| 5.6 MB
00:01
libvir: Xen error : Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByName
Creating storage file...  100% |=========================| 4.0 GB
00:00
Creating domain...                                                 0 B
00:00
Domain installation still in progress.  You can reconnect to
the console to complete the installation process.

I got to virt-manager, where a new machine named "hockey" has just
showed up, which I open and view serial console.  I see what looks like
an Anaconda session, asking "Choose a Language".

I pick English, US, deselect dynamic IP and IPv6, set
192.168.1.201/24,192.168.1.1,192.168.1.2 .  It says "Retrieving
images/minstg2.img..." and stays there forever

192.168.1.117 is our internal Apache server, to which I've mirrored
download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora. Just as a check, I downloaded
http://192.168.1.117/mirror/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/images/sta
ge2.img with my browser and got a 78M file.

It seems as though the image is being built by virt-install, but that
the network settings aren't allowing the virtual machine to talk to the
install server properly.  I don't know Anaconda well enough to change or
even examine the network settings it uses.  Perhaps there is a problem
with not using DHCP?

It seems that several of other approaches I've tried are encountering
the same underlying issue, but with different symptoms.

Thanks!
Walter


-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Armbruster [mailto:armbru at redhat.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:47 AM
To: Walter Coole
Cc: Chris Lalancette; fedora-xen at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Newby Help

You need to tell us *exactly* how you run virt-install, and what error
you get back.