[Fedora-xen] virt-install

[John Summerfield]

Frederick N. Brier wrote:
> I just installed Fedora 8 and the Fedora Xen packages.  I have been 
> trying to get a variety of VMs installed, but the most basic one is just 
> a Fedora guest VM.  Please correct me if I am wrong, but the correct 
> tool is "virt-install".  It asks a number of questions, but the last is 

You can also use virt-manager


> "What is the install location?"  I finally found an excerpt from a book 
> that had 
> "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386" as the 
> answer.  But that is not correct it is actually:
> "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*6*/i386/os", 
> but that is for core 6, not 7 or Fedora 8.  And the file tree does not 
> have a 


If F8 will suffice, whatever you already installed from is fine.

btw You need to tell use whether you're using hardware virtualisation 
(hvm) or paravirtualisation. The answers are different.



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