Thanks for the hint; sorry it took so long for me to try several different approaches. I hadn't tried virt-install; I had assumed that virt-manager's Create Wizard did the equivalent job. Trying virt-install, this is what my session looked like: sudo virt-install -n hockey -r 256 -f /xen/fedora/hockey.img -s 4 --nographics --noautoconsole -l http://192.168.1.117/mirror/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/ Password: Starting install... libvir: Xen error : Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByUUID Retrieving file fedora.cs 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00 Retrieving file vmlinuz.. 100% |=========================| 1.8 MB 00:00 Retrieving file initrd.im 100% |=========================| 5.6 MB 00:01 libvir: Xen error : Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByName Creating storage file... 100% |=========================| 4.0 GB 00:00 Creating domain... 0 B 00:00 Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect to the console to complete the installation process. I got to virt-manager, where a new machine named "hockey" has just showed up, which I open and view serial console. I see what looks like an Anaconda session, asking "Choose a Language". I pick English, US, deselect dynamic IP and IPv6, set 192.168.1.201/24,192.168.1.1,192.168.1.2 . It says "Retrieving images/minstg2.img..." and stays there forever 192.168.1.117 is our internal Apache server, to which I've mirrored download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora. Just as a check, I downloaded http://192.168.1.117/mirror/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/images/sta ge2.img with my browser and got a 78M file. It seems as though the image is being built by virt-install, but that the network settings aren't allowing the virtual machine to talk to the install server properly. I don't know Anaconda well enough to change or even examine the network settings it uses. Perhaps there is a problem with not using DHCP? It seems that several of other approaches I've tried are encountering the same underlying issue, but with different symptoms. Thanks! Walter -----Original Message----- From: Markus Armbruster [mailto:armbru@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:47 AM To: Walter Coole Cc: Chris Lalancette; fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Newby Help You need to tell us *exactly* how you run virt-install, and what error you get back. -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
