On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 12:56:36PM -0500, Jack Smith wrote: > I'm trying to set up a virtual machine running Windows XP. I'm running > Fedora 8 version 2.6.21-2952.fc8xen virt-manager.py 0.5.2 > > Paravirtualized ^^^^ This is your problem. You need to install Windows XP as a fully virtualized guest - make sure you select 'Full virtualization' at this step of the install wizard in virt-manager. http://virt-manager.org/screenshots/install/wizard-step3.png NB, if 'fully virtualized' is grayed out as in this screenshot then your CPUs does not support hardware virtualization and it is not possible todo Windows under Xen. > install media url is /dev/scd0 > my normal disk partition is /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03 > there is no file system on the logical volume and it is not mounted > I chose peth0(bridged) as my physical device > I have two NICs, eth0 and eth1, if it matters > 500 MB and 1 virtual CPU > when I click Finish, I get > > Unable to complete install '<type 'exceptions.ValueError'> Invalid file > location given: No such file or directory This is because its trying todo a paravirtualized install and looking for the Linux install media. Make sure you select fullvirt Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
