Sorry for the fermi-ized url's below--but if anyone
has been able to make SL6 on SL5 work with the corresponding
vanilla SL, please let me know too.
(SL6 guest on SL6 host works fine with virt-install).
Thanks
Steve Timm
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Steven Timm wrote:
Has anyone yet successfully been able to install a SL6 guest
on a SL5 Xen host? according to TUV it is supposed to be supported
but I am having difficulty figuring out what the "location"
URL should be for SL6.
In the SL5 on SL5 case I just use the same url that
I would use for a normal http install, namely
http://linux.fnal.gov/linux/slf57/x86_64/sites/Fermi/
the SL6 boot image seems to indicate that the corresponding URL is
http://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/fermi/slf6.1/x86_64/os/
But when I try to do that with virt-install I get the error:
ValueError: Could not find an installable distribution at
http://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/fermi/slf6.1/x86_64/os/
The code in question, DistroManager.py has code for RHEL4 and RHEL5
as well as sl distro but no difference between version 5 and 6.
Looks like it is trying to get ...images/xen/initrd.img and
images/xen/vmlinuz, which are there.
Is there a newer version of virt-install out there that might
be able to handle the 6-on-5 case?
Steve Timm
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Fermilab Computing Division, Scientific Computing Facilities,
Grid Facilities Department, FermiGrid Services Group, Group Leader.
Lead of FermiCloud project.
