[xen-discuss] Installing Debian DomU hardcoded location Path?

Blake Irvin irvin at vivisimo.com
Thu Sep 10 09:58:25 PDT 2009


I think your problem is the use of 'localhost' - use the IP of the nfs  
server.

'localhost' from the VM will point at the VM's loopback interface...

Blake



On Sep 10, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Darko Hojnik wrote:

> Hi
>
> I wanna install a paravirtualized Debian DomU. Favorite to install  
> with the Debian XEN Installer on http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/xen/
>
> I tryed it with an CentOS image the installer starts seems to work,  
> i didn't finish the Install
>
> Here my Listing:
>
> lofiadm -a CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.iso
> mount -o ro -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
> share -F nfs /mnt
> virt-install -n CentOS_PV -p -r 1024 --nographics  -l nfs:localhost:/ 
> mnt -f /storage/xen/CentOS_PV
>
>
> with virtinstall it was impossible to choose a location over http  
> like http://debian.netcologne.de/centos/5.3/os/ or for Debian http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/xen 
>  Same with an Debian ISO Image. Is the path for vmlinuz and initrd  
> hardcoded? If yes how should be the files stored?
>
> kind regards Darko Hojnik
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