Agreed, it might be easier to use virt-manager, if Anaconda didn't complain about not getting http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os//ima ges/stage2.img . Is http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/ the best URL for a Fedora install tree?
I tried your xvda suggestion, but got an error:
VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option
I changed the root clause to:
root = "/dev/xvda1 ro"
, which changed the error to:
VFS: Cannot open root device "xvda1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option
I'm unclear whether the problem is in creating the virtual disk or in being able to mount it after it's been created.
On the virt-manager front I tried copying the install disks I have onto a local directory, but got the error:
Unable to complete install: 'Invalid install location: Mounting location /install/fc6/ failed'. Apparently, the local path for Create Wizard needs to be a device that it can mount, because it gets farther if I use /dev/cdrom.
Pulling directly from the CD fails with the error:
Unable to complete install: 'virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error creating domain: (22, 'Invalid argument')")'
, but I'm unclear on which argument is invalid.
Thanks for your help so far! Walter
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Lalancette [mailto:clalance@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:29 AM To: Walter Coole Cc: mnielsen@redhat.com; fedora-xen@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Newby Help
Walter Coole wrote:
cat football.cfg kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.3002.fc6xen" memory = 256 name = "football" vif = [ '' ] dhcp = "dhcp" disk = ['file://xen/fedora/football.img,sda1,w', 'file://xen/fedora/football.swap,sda2,w']
This is wrong. For paravirtualized guests, you want to use xvda1 and xvda2. Also, you want to use tap:aio, otherwise you will corrupt your guest disks if the dom0 crashes. So your disk line really wants to look like:
disk = ['tap:aio:/xen/fedora/football.img,xvda1,w','tap:aio:/xen/fedora/footbal l.swap,xvda2,w']
It might be easier, though, just to use virt-install and/or virt-manager to install your guests; they take care of these details for you.
Chris Lalancette