[Fedora-xen] Guest Installation via local http fails[SOLVED]

[Claus Reheis]

On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 23:48 +0200, Ronald Warsow wrote:
> 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 ....
ok
> 
> 2. your iptables setting for http maybe ?
ok

Changed settings from "Virtual Network" to "Shared physical device =
eth0" and its workinf fine now...

I dont know what did the trick, but I will find out:) 

Thanks for your help,

Claus
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