--location \
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-amd64

immediately fails with message "unable to retrieve xen kernel" 



--- On Fri, 10/9/09, Mark Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Mark Johnson <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [xen-discuss] Status of xVM in OpenSolaris for production (cloud)
To: "Boris Derzhavets" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Xen discuss" <[email protected]>, "Frédéric VANNIÈRE" 
<[email protected]>
Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 1:09 PM



Boris Derzhavets wrote:
>  >The guests (domU) will be only paravirtualized Debian with custom kernel,
>  >and maybe some OpenSolaris x86pv (I will use zones for Solaris/OpenSolaris
>  >guests).
> 
> If you like libvirt so much, i.e. virt-install as core tool for PV DomU 
> installation and
> pygrub to load PV DomU in post-installation phase, then how you intend to 
> install paravirtualized Debian with custom kernel without debootstrap 
> integrated into system. Any Ubuntu PV guest will be affected in same way. 
> Ubuntu 8.10,9.04,9.10 Servers ISO images are completely useless for 
> virt-install, rather then to create HVM DomUs and try to utilize image 
> devices for  PV guest load, what is not approved method for Debian PV guests 
> install vs debootstrap.
> 
> View for instance :-
> http://blog.adventuresinopensolaris.com/2008/07/xvm-pv-of-debian-distros.html
> 

The following works fine for me...

   virt-install -n debian -r 1024  -p --nographics -f 
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/xvm/debian  -l 
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/


MRJ




      
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