[Fedora-xen] virt-install

[John Maclean]

/usr/sbin/virt-install --name fx6foo \
--paravirt \
--ram 256 \
--nographics \
--file-size 10 \
--file /dev/zulu_images/fx6foo \
--location
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/


^^ That kind of thing. The man page has a few examples right at the end.

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:27:34 +0000 "Daniel P. Berrange"
<berrange at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 02:44:12AM -0500, 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?  I would have said okay, except I started getting
> > messages like this:
> 
> Fedora Core & Extras mered during the F7 release, so the download URLs
> changed style slightly
> 
> eg, i386 F8
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/
> 
> eg, x86_64 F7
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/
> 
> Basically, you always want the URL ending in '/os/' for your release.
> 
> You can also use  nfs:// or ftp:// URLs.
> 
> Regards,
> Dan.


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Regards,

John Maclean
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