[Fedora-xen] What is the magic mount sauce?

[Paul Clark]

Here is the /root/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:35:13 DEBUG Creating a VM test
UUID: a43ba159-c6c2-df63-275e-b11547bbfce4
Source: http://mormon.home/distro/i386/os/
Kickstart:
Memory: 500
# VCPUs: 1
Filesize: 4.8828125
Disk image: /vm/test1
Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:35:13 DEBUG Starting background install process
Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:35:13 ERROR Could not complete install Invalid URL 
location given: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 
07:35:11 GMT^M
Server: Apache/2.2.2 (Win32) PHP/5.2.0-dev mod_ssl/2.2.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8b 
mod_jk/1.2.15 mod_perl/2.0.3-dev Perl/v5.8.8^M
Vary: Accept-Encoding^M
Content-Length: 232^M
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1^M
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 365, in 
do_install
dom = guest.start_install(False)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/ParaVirtGuest.py", line 
191, in start_install
(self.kernel, self.initrd) = self._get_paravirt_install_images()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/ParaVirtGuest.py", line 
87, in _get_paravirt_install_images
raise RuntimeError, "Invalid URL location given: " + str(e)
RuntimeError: Invalid URL location given: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: 
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:35:11 GMT^M
Server: Apache/2.2.2 (Win32) PHP/5.2.0-dev mod_ssl/2.2.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8b 
mod_jk/1.2.15 mod_perl/2.0.3-dev Perl/v5.8.8^M
Vary: Accept-Encoding^M
Content-Length: 232^M
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1^M

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:35:13 ERROR Async job failed to create VM ERROR: 
Invalid URL location given: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Sun, 29 Oct 
2006 07:35:11 GMT^M
Server: Apache/2.2.2 (Win32) PHP/5.2.0-dev mod_ssl/2.2.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8b 
mod_jk/1.2.15 mod_perl/2.0.3-dev Perl/v5.8.8^M
Vary: Accept-Encoding^M
Content-Length: 232^M
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1^M






Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:13:01AM -0600, Paul Clark wrote:
>   
>> I want to mount my local CDROM to create a new guest using the 
>> Paravirtualization.  Other parameters are RAM=512mb, disk=5gig, and 
>> cpu=1.  I have tried the HTTP and NFS protocols.  I was able to access 
>> the drive and files from another machines so I know I have the network 
>> configuration correct.  BUT...  when I pass the location to the 
>> xenguest-install script and the virt-manager I receive an error about 
>> the URL.
>>     
>
> Can you post the contents of /root/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log which
> may give us more info about what's going wrong.
>
>   
>> ERROR: Invalid URL location given: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Sun, 
>> 29 Oct 2006 07:35:11 GMT
>> Server: Apache/2.2.2 (Win32) PHP/5.2.0-dev mod_ssl/2.2.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8b 
>> mod_jk/1.2.15 mod_perl/2.0.3-dev Perl/v5.8.8
>> Vary: Accept-Encoding
>> Content-Length: 232
>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>>
>> What I think is weird is when I use the Fedora site it works, 
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>     
>
> I can only think its some subtle URL / apache config mismatch - the logs
> ought to help us identify the cause.
>
> Regards,
> Dan.
>