problem installing centos5 as guest domain in xen

[snesbitt]

All:

I've got a centos 5 system setup with Xen enabled. However, I am stumped as to how to install another instance of centos 5 as an guest domain. I've setup an ftp server and confirmed I can access it, but when I can never get farther than the ftp setup. No matter what I enter in, it just displays again.

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong or how I can debug this?

Thanks!

-steve

[z00dax]

the easy way is to use the 'Virtual Machine manager' - its documented in the Deployment Guide

the not-as-easy way is to use the xm tool on the command line to build a new VM

[dessimus]

I found the "virt-install" method from the command line much easier to use

see section 7.1

[url=http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC6]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC6[/url]

[freddy]

I think that this is not documented very well but here is what I did:

- copied the Centos5 DVD to /usr/local/xen/centos50/

- Then added this to the /etc/httpd/httpd.conf file:

alias /centos50/ /usr/local/xen/centos50/


Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all


- /etc/init.d/httpd restart

- now you can use any install method like virt-install or install-manager... when it asks for source just do http:///centos50/

Hope that helps...