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

Thu Nov 17 15:48:04 UTC 2011

I've posted a zillion questions lately, I'll take a stab at answering this one:

On your storage space - how is your SSD partitioned?  As I recall, the default location for VMs is /var/lib/libvirt/images.  So depending on how you're partitioned, maybe the partition where this ended up doesn't have much room.  You can set up other storage pools using virt-manager.  What really happens is, it sets up some LVM stuff, and then you can point it anywhere convenient.  Right-click on the hostname and go to details.  When I set up a host to handle a bunch of VMs, I usually make a /data LVM logical volume and a /sys volume.  The /data volume gets all the VMs and any application stuff.  Then I can do fresh installs in the /sys volume when new OS versions come out.  

I don't have a clue why F16 Anaconda would fail a dependency check.  I wonder what would happen with an older Fedora release as a test VM?  Or even, say, a Windows XP install (but don't activate it).  Just anything so you can get your first test VM up and running and then bootstrap from there.

- Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: virt-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:virt-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Bob Cochran
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 3:08 PM
To: virt at lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: [fedora-virt] Fwd: Re: How To Get Started With Virtualization In Fedora 16

Reposting to see if anyone will help with my beginner questions.

Thanks

Bob

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [fedora-virt] How To Get Started With Virtualization In 
Fedora 16
Date: 	Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:04:20 -0500
From: 	Bob Cochran <bcochran13 at verizon.net>
To: 	virt at lists.fedoraproject.org

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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