Can't install XEN guest on Fedora 22

[M A Young]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Jens Pelzetter wrote:

> Hello Michael,
> 
> Am 27.08.2015 um 14:39 schrieb M A Young:
> > On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Jens Pelzetter wrote:
> > 
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> we have a system (Sun Fire V40z) here were we can only do
> >> Para-Virtualisation using Xen because the CPU does not have
> >> Virtualization Support. With CentOS 6.6 everythink worked fine. We
> >> decided to reinstall the system with Fedora Server 22 because we needed
> >> some more up to date packages.
> >>
> >> Now we are stuck with Xen. If we try to create a guest using
> >> Virt-Manager we get this error:
> >>
> >> Unable to complete install: 'cannot fill file
> >> '/var/lib/xen/virtinst-vmlinuz.WtErnB': Invalid argument'
> > 
> > That looks like it isn't extracting the kernel from your VM partition or 
> > image. It might be being blocked by selinux if you are in enforcing mode, 
> > so try setenforce 0 first to switch to permissive mode ( setenforce 1 will 
> > get you back to enforcing afterwards).
> 
> unfortunately that was the first thing we tried. No change.

You can try running run pygrub directly to narrow down where the problem 
is, eg.

pygrub --output-directory=/var/lib/xen /path/to/your/vm

If this works you should get a menu and it should download the kernel and 
initrd of the option you select to /var/lib/xen .

	Michael Young