What you are looking for is called "Installation Tree." And if you want to install xen guest locally you need to build your own installation tree.
The good news is it is simple as:
 
1. mount cdrom
2. cp -var /mnt/cdrom/ /var/www/html/fc3/x86/      -> if you want to install via http
    cp -var /mnt/cdrom/ /nfs_share/                      -> if you want to install via nfs
 
and when running virt-install just put the correct path.
--
Wiwat T.
 

From: fedora-xen-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Willemann, Phil
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 22:06
To: fedora-xen@redhat.com
Subject: [Fedora-xen] Xen Guest Installation question

Hello Everyone:

I'm new to Xen and have some Linux experience.  I have installed Fedora Core 6 on a Intel 3.2 GHZ machine. (Note:  I have 1 machine to test with.)  I have 6GB of RAM.  My ultimate goal is to install a few versions of Fedora Core 3 on the box.  (I have an old application that uses FC3)  I can start up the virt-install GUI with no problems.  My questions revolve around the location of FC3.

1.  I know it can't be installed from a FC3 Install CD.  <-- I don't understand why this is not supported.  It would seem to be the easiest thing to do.

2.  I know I can use NFS or HTTP.
3.  I have Apache Web Server running and NFS is enabled.

Here are the questions

1.  If I want to use http or NFS, do I copy the entire FC3 Install CD to some place on the hard drive?  Is the copy a *.iso file or is it the individual          files from the CD?  This has never been clear for me.  I have seen conflicting information on the net about this

2.  If I use http where do I put the files. (under /var/www/…??)
3.  I made a directory called /tmptest and copied the iso image to it.  I edited the /etc/exports file and added a line like this

    /tmptest   192.168.107.14(rw,sync)  <-- I assumed this means 192.168.107.14 has rw write access to /tmptest.    This seems to make sense but the installation seems to always say invalid NFS source.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Phil Willemann



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