[fedora-virt] How To Get Started With Virtualization In Fedora 16

[Bob Cochran]

I installed Fedora 16 on my new machine and then perused the 
getting-started guide below to create my first guest, a Fedora 16 guest. 
The attempt failed.

First I tried to use command line virt-install with the --prompt option 
to create a machine named 'bobf16'. This terminated abruptly after I 
answered the second question. I'll try it again late tomorrow and post 
the output here.

Then I tried the graphical virt-manager install. I tried to create a 
machine named 'bobf16' which is a linux OS and specifically a Fedora 16 
OS. I allocated 8 Gb of space for the container, 1 cpu core, and 4096 Mb 
of memory. I used the Fedora 16 DVD which was in a physical DVD drive. 
This worked much better until the anaconda installer inside the 
container started computing dependencies and, apparently, space 
requirements also. It issued a dialog box stating

"You need 3396 Mb of free space but do not have enough space...."

And the process offered me the option of going back to my package 
selections to reduce the count of them, or to exit the installer. The 
process does not tell me the amount of space that I need to reduce by 
and for a system with an 8 Gb container, in my eyes 3396 Mb appears to 
be ample...so I wonder if this is a bug in anaconda when presented with 
small containers?

The final issue is that the Fedora 16 host OS is installed on a Mushkin 
240 Gb SSD drive, but the virt-manager graphical interface seems to 
suggest that I have only 44 Gb of this space available for containers. 
How can this be? I don't think the host system needs more than about 8 
Gb of space....there should be at least 200 Gb of space available on the 
mushkin drive. (Now I'm wondering if my swap space was set to twice the 
amount of my physical RAM. I have 32 Gb installed memory. I must check 
the size of my swap space.)

Thanks for advice and suggestions!

Bob


On 11/11/11 11:34 PM, Anand Nande wrote:
> On 11/12/2011 10:02 AM, Anand Nande wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would recommend you to go through the 'getting started' guide which 
>> should fairly work on all the Fedora releases:
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_virtualization
>>
>> If you want to seek some immediate assistance on issues with the 
>> Virt-Manager head to the following IRC channel:
>>
>> #virt <irc://irc.oftc.net/#virt>
>
> [correction] Not only related to virt-manager, any virt issues
>
>>
>> For a virtualization mailing list: 
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> ANAND NANDE
>> Red Hat - India
>>
>> On 11/12/2011 07:54 AM, Bob Cochran wrote:
>>> I should have a server-class AMD Opteron system ready to use soon; it is
>>> still being built. I want to install Fedora 16 on this as a
>>> virtualization host. How do I get started with that? Do I need to
>>> install an Xen kernel from M. A. Young? I want to have as much "Dom0"
>>> functionality as possible. I know from posing an earlier question that
>>> Xen has limitations with USB support. My friend will be using a Windows
>>> 7 guest instance and is heavily dependent on USB devices.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any advice!
>>>
>>> Bob Cochran
>>>
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