Re: [Xen-users] installing a vm with virt-install

[Shriram R <shriram@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

my suggestion would be to look at one of the centos mirror sites, say 
like this
ftp.usf.edu/centos/5.1/os/i386/
or whatever the right url is..

i gave this location to virt install.
bottom line: The net install method works for virt install. So, you 
could look at those directories, see if you are missing any meta file 
that virt install requires (but i doubt it)
Sadique Puthen wrote:
> Daniel McBrearty wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am new to xen, trying to get things going on a new CentOS install. I
> > have xen installed fine, and "xm list" shows Domain-0 is OK.
> >
> > I am trying to use virt-install (or it's GUI equiv through
> > virt-manager) to set up a new VM. I am trying to give a local empty
> > file file (created with dd as per docs)
> Not required to create it via dd. virt-manager or virt-install would 
> automatically create the file backend for you.
> >  as the hard disc, and get it
> > to install from an iso file. Every time I give the location for the
> > iso file, I get the error:
> >
> > ERROR:  Could not find an installable distribution the install location
> >   
> Are you trying to install a paravirtual guest or a fully virt?
>
> > I have tried giving the full path to the ISO, the path to the
> > containing directory, also ftp:// ... to the directory on an external
> > server. Always the same thing. I've also tried DamnSmallLinux and
> > Debian iso's
> >
> > what am I doing wrong? what is the easy way to do this?
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > Daniel
> >
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