[Fedora-xen] virt-install

[Rahul Sundaram]

Frederick N. Brier wrote:
> I just installed Fedora 8 and the Fedora Xen packages.  I have been 
> trying to get a variety of VMs installed, but the most basic one is just 
> a Fedora guest VM.  Please correct me if I am wrong, but the correct 
> tool is "virt-install".  It asks a number of questions, but the last is 
> "What is the install location?"  I finally found an excerpt from a book 
> that had 
> "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386" as the 
> answer.  But that is not correct it is actually:
> "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*6*/i386/os", 
> but that is for core 6, not 7 or Fedora 8.  And the file tree does not 
> have a 
> "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*8*/i386/os".  
> Is there no place where fc8's files are posted?  Or are we supposed to 
> specify 6? 

No. Core and Extras repositories have been merged with the release of 
Fedora 7 and the location has changed to "Releases. An example mirror 
would be

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/

Refer

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Fedora8VirtQuickStart

Rahul