[Fedora-xen] virt-install

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 02:44:12AM -0500, 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 
> "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 
> "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*8*/i386/os".  
> Is there no place where fc8's files are posted?  Or are we supposed to 
> specify 6?  I would have said okay, except I started getting messages 
> like this:

Fedora Core & Extras mered during the F7 release, so the download URLs
changed style slightly

eg, i386 F8

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/

eg, x86_64 F7

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/

Basically, you always want the URL ending in '/os/' for your release.

You can also use  nfs:// or ftp:// URLs.

Regards,
Dan.
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