[Fedora-xen] RE: Urgent Help Required: FC10 as DomU on FC8 as Dom0

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 02:13:44PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:47:01PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 07:14:50PM +0000, MOHAMMAD MATEEN ASLAM wrote:
> > > 
> > > # cat  vm.cfg
> > > 
> > > kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-PAE"
> > > ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-PAE.img"
> > > 
> > > memory = 128
> > > name = "xxxxx"
> > > vif = [ 'ip=xx.xx.xx.xx' ]
> > > disk = ['tap:aio:/var/xen/vm13/root,sda1,w', 'tap:aio:/var/xen/vm13/var,sda2,w', 'tap:aio:/var/xen/vm13/swap,sda3,w']
> > > root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
> > > on_reboot   = 'restart'
> > > on_crash    = 'restart'
> > > 
> > > # xm create -c vm.cfg    -> for booting vm
> > > 
> > 
> > Your disk configuration is wrong. 
> > 
> > You need to have xvda disk for domU.
> > 
> > Something like this:
> > 
> > disk = ['tap:aio:/var/xen/vm13/xvda,xvda,w']
> > 
> > if 'tap:aio' doesn't work, then try just 'file'. 
> > 
> 
> Have you tried installing with virt-install? or virt-manager? 
> 
> Example how I installed rawhide on CentOS 5.2 dom0:
> (NOTE: This was earlier, before Fedora 9 was released. I haven't tried it now for F10 or F11 rawhide)
> 
> $ virt-install -n test -r 512 --vcpus=1 -f /dev/vg0/test_disk1 --vnc -p -l "ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os"
> 
> Replace the FTP mirror with your local mirror.
> 
> Does that work? 
> 

.. The reason you upgraded python-virtinst is to be able to use
virt-install and/or virt-manager .. 

-- Pasi