Best Way To Install Ubuntu 8.10 (AMD64) Guest?

[Robert L Cochran]

Hi,

I have a fully updated Fedora 11 with Virtualization. My laptop is a 
Dell Latitude E6400, 4 Gb of memory, Intel P9500 dual core processor 
with virtualization support.

I want to install Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop (AMD64) as a guest in Fedora. What 
is the easiest way of installing it such that I have internet access, 
USB, and possibly RS-232 serial port access?

Thanks!

Bob Cochran

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 03:19:26PM -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I have a fully updated Fedora 11 with Virtualization. My laptop is a  
>  Dell Latitude E6400, 4 Gb of memory, Intel P9500 dual core processor  
>  with virtualization support.
>
>  I want to install Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop (AMD64) as a guest in Fedora. What  
>  is the easiest way of installing it such that I have internet access,  
>  USB, and possibly RS-232 serial port access? 
You can install Ubuntu easily from the live CD.  Download the ISO from
here:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

then start up virt-manager and click through to install a new guest
from an ISO.  Alternately you can do it from virt-install, something
along these lines:

lvcreate -L 10G -n Ubuntu VG
virt-install -v -n Ubuntu \
  --accelerate -r 512 \
  -c /tmp/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso  -f /dev/VG/Ubuntu

Rich.

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