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sveinh

Can't install debian xen guest with virt-installer [Centos 5.3]

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I have tried to install debian 5.0 and 4.0 without any luck. I have both tried virt-manager and virt-install with both debian-501-i386-netinst.iso, and full dvd.
I't always gives me the same error:

Starting install...
Could not find an installable distribution at '/xen/debian-501-i386-netinst.iso'
Domain installation may not have been
 successful.  If it was, you can restart your domain
 by running 'virsh start test'; otherwise, please
 restart your installation.
søn, 03 mai 2009 03:06:44 ERROR    Could not find an installable distribution at '/xen/debian-501-i386-netinst.iso'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 560, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 492, in main
    dom = guest.start_install(conscb, progresscb, wait=(not wait))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 820, in start_install
    self._prepare_install(meter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/ParaVirtGuest.py", line 56, in _prepare_install
    self._installer.prepare(guest = self, meter = meter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 261, in prepare
    self._prepare_kernel_and_initrd(guest, distro, meter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 231, in _prepare_kernel_and_initrd
    arch = arch)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 133, in acquireKernel
    arch=arch)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 109, in _storeForDistro
    raise ValueError, _("Could not find an installable distribution at '%s'" % baseuri)
ValueError: Could not find an installable distribution at '/xen/debian-501-i386-netinst.iso'

Posted on: 2009/5/3 1:08

Cthulu

Re: Can't install debian xen guest with virt-installer [Centos 5.3]

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Joined: 2009/8/20

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I'm having the same issue, I'm afraid. I installed amd64 Centos 5.3 on a rather underpowered but low energy nettop Intel Atom based CPU without virtualization hardware support.

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags 
flags   : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm

I'd like to replace my less energy-efficient AMD Athlon X2 local web and file server but I wanted to install apt-proxy or apt-cacher so I won't have to continually download updates for various Debian and Ubuntu clients in my little LAN. My new server won't handle KVM. I doubt it matters by the system uses LVM and LUKS encryption.

Xen is installed, I'm booting to a xen kernel, xend seems to be running. I've tried both the virt-install & virt-manager, everything to go fine, but whenever I'd hit the "Finish" button (in the Virtual Machine Manager) I'd get some message like this:

Unable to complete install 'exceptions.ValueError 
Could not find an installable distribution at '/ka' Traceback (most recent call last):   
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 627, in do_install     
dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)   
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 820, in start_install     
self._prepare_install(meter)   
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/ParaVirtGuest.py", line 56, in _prepare_install     
self._installer.prepare(guest = self, meter = meter)   
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 261, in prepare     
self._prepare_kernel_and_initrd(guest, distro, meter)   
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 231, in _prepare_kernel_and_initrd     
arch = arch)   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 133, in acquireKernel     arch=arch)   
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 109, in _storeForDistro     
raise ValueError, _("Could not find an installable distribution at '%s'" % baseuri) 
ValueError: Could not find an installable distribution at '/ka'

I tried pointing the installer at an ISO, a loop mounted ISO, a directory with the files copied from a loop mounted ISO, what I figured was the Debian server repository with the latest netboot installer, even directories with compressed and uncompressed XEN img image files from Stacklet. I even loop mounted the Debian amd64 Lenny ISO and soft linked to it in my local web browser as I gleaned was a good tact from this post on a similar vein:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=12946&forum=41&post_id=43016#forumpost43016
I can browse to the ISO files fine at http://localhost/iso/

Can anyone beat me with a clue stick? What am I missing?

I have read the Stacklet documentation and tried to appropriately edit the debian.5-0.x86-64.xen3.cfg file.

kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen" 
memory = "384" 
name = "debian.5-0" 
vif = [''] 
dhcp = "dhcp" 
disk = ['file:/ka/debimg/debian.5-0.x86-64.img,/dev/mapper/luks-93d27066-e97f-44d2-80ab-1cc1a7bf9416,w'] 
root = "/dev/mapper/luks-93d27066-e97f-44d2-80ab-1cc1a7bf9416 ro"

I've looked over the Virtualization Guide that came with the distro.

file:///usr/share/doc/Virtualization-en-US-5.2/index.html#pref-Virtualization-Installation_Procedures-Installing_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_Virtualization

Also, I've mucked around with various helpful tutorials:

http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-xen-on-centos-5.2-i386-p2
http://www.howtoforge.com/paravirtualization-with-xen-on-centos-5.3-x86_64-p2

I'm not the brightest penny in the jar, but seems like it should be easier. Some folks are just too daft to run Linux.

Posted on: 2009/8/20 21:07

postman76

Re: Can't install debian xen guest with virt-installer [Centos 5.3]

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Joined: 2009/11/2

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Hello guys,

I´ve got exactly the same problem and tested everything even a local NIS installation. Nothing worked. With a CentOS 5.3 guest it´s working, but I want to use a Debian installation as guest. It seems to me that CentOs developers didn´t think about the possibility to install something else. IMHO it should not matter which OS I want as guest.

Best regards

postman

Posted on: 2009/11/2 16:47

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