--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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