[Fedora-xen] Guest Installation via local http fails

[Ronald Warsow]

Claus Reheis wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I found some time and thought about playing around with Xen 3.1 in
> Fedora 7!
> I tried to setup Fedora 7 as a para-virtualized guest on a Fedora 7 host
> with help of a nice howto in the O`Reilly book about Fedora what suggest
> the folling steps:
> 
> 1)Setup a network installation server in Dom0:
> 
> setenforce 0
> 
> ln -s /media/disk/ /var/www/html/fedora
> 
> service httpd start
> 
> 2)Start the Installation with virt-manager 
> 
> The installation starts up fine until I can choose the installation
> method!I choose http and after I always get the Error message:
> 
> "Unable to retrieve http://192.168.0.123/fedora//images/stage2.img "
> 
> The strange things are the two *//* !I cant get rid of it!I tried any
> combination who came to my mind, but no success until now...
> 
> When I open Firefox and go to 
> 
> http://192.168.0.123/fedora/images/stage2.img
> 
> or
> 
> localhost/fedora/images/stage2.img
> 
> the file just downloads fine without any error!
> I tried the http installation from a fedora server:
> 
> http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/linux/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/
> 
> No problem either!
> So what is wrong with my attempt to install from the local server?
> 

1. I'm not sure if the above can work with ln -s ... , so why not to 
mount directly under /var/www ....

2. your iptables setting for http maybe ?

> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Claus
> 
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      Ronald