Agreed, it might be easier to use virt-manager, if Anaconda didn't complain about not getting http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os//ima ges/stage2.img . Is http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/ the best URL for a Fedora install tree? I tried your xvda suggestion, but got an error: VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option I changed the root clause to: root = "/dev/xvda1 ro" , which changed the error to: VFS: Cannot open root device "xvda1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option I'm unclear whether the problem is in creating the virtual disk or in being able to mount it after it's been created. On the virt-manager front I tried copying the install disks I have onto a local directory, but got the error: Unable to complete install: 'Invalid install location: Mounting location /install/fc6/ failed'. Apparently, the local path for Create Wizard needs to be a device that it can mount, because it gets farther if I use /dev/cdrom. Pulling directly from the CD fails with the error: Unable to complete install: 'virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error creating domain: (22, 'Invalid argument')")' , but I'm unclear on which argument is invalid. Thanks for your help so far! Walter -----Original Message----- From: Chris Lalancette [mailto:clalance@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:29 AM To: Walter Coole Cc: mnielsen@xxxxxxxxxx; fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Newby Help Walter Coole wrote: > cat football.cfg > kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.3002.fc6xen" > memory = 256 > name = "football" > vif = [ '' ] > dhcp = "dhcp" > disk = ['file://xen/fedora/football.img,sda1,w', > 'file://xen/fedora/football.swap,sda2,w'] This is wrong. For paravirtualized guests, you want to use xvda1 and xvda2. Also, you want to use tap:aio, otherwise you will corrupt your guest disks if the dom0 crashes. So your disk line really wants to look like: disk = ['tap:aio:/xen/fedora/football.img,xvda1,w','tap:aio:/xen/fedora/footbal l.swap,xvda2,w'] It might be easier, though, just to use virt-install and/or virt-manager to install your guests; they take care of these details for you. Chris Lalancette -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
