Hi Pete,<br><br>I had the same error.<br>Some mirrors couldn't be donwloaded from.<br>I had success with the mirror that is in the virt-install man's page, but it's not good.<br><br>Then I'd made the download of the whole mirror and done it in localhost, and it worked.<br>
<br>If you have success doing this, post here please. I wanna know too.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Pete Kay <<a href="mailto:petedao@gmail.com">petedao@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>When trying to install Cent domU on fedora 8 dom0, I am getting the following error. I have tried both graphics support Yes and No<br><br>[root@bogon pete]# virt-install<br>What is the name of your virtual machine? serverA<br>
How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 256<br> What would you like to use as the disk (file path)? /dev/serverA<br> Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) no<br> What is the install location? <a href="http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/x86_64/" target="_blank">http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/x86_64/</a><br>
<br><br>Starting install...<br>libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: <br>Retrieving file CentOS... 590 kB 00:26 <br>Retrieving file vmlinuz.. 100% |=========================| 1.8 MB 01:10 <br>
Retrieving file <a href="http://initrd.im" target="_blank">initrd.im</a> 100% |=========================| 5.2 MB 03:17 <br>libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: <br>libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err 'Device 51712 (vbd) could not be connected. losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/serverA failed')<br>
virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: (xend.err 'Device 51712 (vbd) could not be connected. losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/serverA failed')<br>Domain installation may not have been<br> successful. If it was, you can restart your domain<br>
by running 'virsh start serverA'; otherwise, please<br> restart your installation.<br>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:09:50 ERROR virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: (xend.err 'Device 51712 (vbd) could not be connected. losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/serverA failed')<br>
Traceback (most recent call last):<br> File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 502, in <module><br> main()<br> File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 462, in main<br> dom = guest.start_install(conscb,progresscb)<br>
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 813, in start_install<br> return self._do_install(consolecb, meter)<br> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 834, in _do_install<br>
self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)<br> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 573, in createLinux<br> if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)<br>
libvirtError: virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: (xend.err 'Device 51712 (vbd) could not be connected. losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/serverA failed')<br>[root@bogon pete]# <br><br><br><br>I would appreciate any help on getting xen to work.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><font color="#888888">Pete<br>
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