On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:04:20AM -0500, Bob Cochran wrote: > I installed Fedora 16 on my new machine and then perused the > getting-started guide below to create my first guest, a Fedora 16 guest. > The attempt failed. > > First I tried to use command line virt-install with the --prompt option > to create a machine named 'bobf16'. This terminated abruptly after I > answered the second question. I'll try it again late tomorrow and post > the output here. > > Then I tried the graphical virt-manager install. I tried to create a > machine named 'bobf16' which is a linux OS and specifically a Fedora 16 > OS. I allocated 8 Gb of space for the container, 1 cpu core, and 4096 Mb > of memory. I used the Fedora 16 DVD which was in a physical DVD drive. > This worked much better until the anaconda installer inside the > container started computing dependencies and, apparently, space > requirements also. It issued a dialog box stating > > "You need 3396 Mb of free space but do not have enough space...."
There's not enough information to properly diagnose this. However if I were to guess I'd say it's because Anaconda has decided that because the guest has 4 GB of RAM, it needs a large swap space, and that large guest swap space has eaten up most of your guest disk space, leaving not very much for storage of the OS, files etc. So: give the guest less RAM, more disk; or don't use Anaconda's automatic partitioning, instead choose the partition sizes yourself by hand. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
