On 12/23/2011 12:39 AM, David Highley wrote: > > We would like to establish a guest hosting set up so we can implement a rich > media hosting environment. Would like to host ubuntu so we can install > the plex adaptive bitrate server. Would like to host Windows 7 media > center with hdcp playback. Maybe Lion for other media services. > > Will the virt implementation work for these guests? Not for Lion, since OSX isn't generally virtualizable. Rest should work. Where is good > documentation to be found for configuring and setting up guests. We > looked at the site http://virt-manager.org/screenshots.html and it leads > one to believe you can use virt-manager but we found no way to create a > new guest system with it. virt-manager can definitely create new VMs. There is a 'new' button on the main screen of the app. What is the exact problem you are having? We found another site that said to run > virt-install --prompt and answer the prompts. It asked for the guest > name and memory size and the aborted. > virt-install --prompt is only passingly maintained, I wouldn't recommend using it. But I'm curious what error you are getting anyways. > Last we tried: > virt-install --livecd --cdrom=ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso > --os-type=linux --hvm --noreboot --name=ubuntu --ram=6000 --disk > path=/export/home1/virtual_guest/ubuntu,size=40 > > It created a guest which would not run. It complains that the iso is not > writable. We want to host this on Fedora 16. > Is virt-install printing an error to the command line or is that error coming from inside the guest? Either way, please provide the exact error message. Thanks, Cole
