Problem about installing guesting OS with virt-manger of Fedora Core 6

Hi,

I installed the Fedora Core 6 on my computer.

Now I was trying to install the Fedora Core 6 guesting OS in my computer.
I use the Virtual Machine Manager to do this.

First, I create an empty file, box1, like this:

cat > box1

I didn't type anthing into the file. SO the file is empty. (Is this a
correct approach to create a file for the guesting OS storage space ?)

Then I set the /home/jane/xen/box1 as the storage space to install my
guesting OS. I chose Fedora COre 6 again as my guest os. The problem is:
When the installation comes to selecting disk partition part, there is no
available drive there. I print the screen and attached the picture.

I get stucked there and can't continue the guest os installation.

COuld you please give me some hint? THank you very much.

Regards,
Angel

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:19:31PM -0500, taoj2(a)cs.rpi.edu wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I installed the Fedora Core 6 on my computer.
>  
>  Now I was trying to install the Fedora Core 6 guesting OS in my computer.
>  I use the Virtual Machine Manager to do this.
>  
>  First, I create an empty file, box1, like this:
>  
>  cat > box1 
I think you'll need more than 0 bytes in which to install the guest
OS packages :-)

>  I didn't type anthing into the file. SO the file is empty. (Is
> this a
>  correct approach to create a file for the guesting OS storage space ?) 
Don't create the file manually - let virt-manager do it for you - it
will give you option to specify the desired size & location

>  Then I set the /home/jane/xen/box1 as the storage space to install
> my
>  guesting OS. I chose Fedora COre 6 again as my guest os. The problem is:
>  When the installation comes to selecting disk partition part, there is no
>  available drive there. I print the screen and attached the picture. 
There is no drive because you created a zero byte file. Let virt-manager
create it, in addition it needs to be under /var/lib/xen/images rather
than /home.

Regards,
Dan.
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