Am 2020-05-05 16:14, schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
Ahoi!
On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 03:31:38PM +0530, Harsh chopra wrote:
Hi everyone,
I was trying to install Centos 2.1 on the virtual machine,
Ambitious! Note that older operating systems often don't work in
qemu, not for any particular reason but just because they don't get
much attention and things regress, drivers in particular. Or the
drivers such as IDE don't emulate corners which are needed by the old
OS. For example I tried running some really ancient Linux versions in
qemu a while back with no success at all.
Having said that I have run RHEL 3 recently on qemu and that's fairly
similar to 2.1.
the installation
was complete 50% but then it asked to insert the second installation
iso
file.
i.e. "Please insert disc 2 in cdrom"
I tried to change the XML file and insert the line
<source file = "/home/..."/>
under device name but nothing helped.
When you say you "tried to change the XML file" - how did you do that?
You should use ‘virsh edit <guest>’ only, and not attempt to edit any
XML file directly. Or of course you can use virt-manager as the other
reply suggested - it essentially does the same thing as virsh edit.
Should I extract the iso file in a folder and then give it's path in
source
file or am I missing something?
You might also try to install using --location, assuming that RHEL 2.1
supported that (I don't recall, but I'm pretty sure RHEL 3 did).
Rich.
i do this with a simple trick. i did this with centos 5 last weeks
i attached 12 cdroms to VM and install runs thru without any "please
insert disc #<nr>"
after that, i removed the cdrom drives.
voila
kind regards
marko
