[CentOS] Xen Install manager won't let me install anything.
Pasi Kärkkäinen
pasik at iki.fi
Thu May 5 13:09:38 UTC 2011
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 12:45:41AM -0400, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote:
>
> Greetings all.
>
> I am attempting to install dom-u guests on a vanilla install of Centos
> 5.6. I am attempting to use the Xen Manager and it 1) won't let me
> choose ANYTHING but network install, which is quite odd to say the
> least, and 2) won't let my freebsd install iso complete. I am a novice
> with Xen, however, it doesn't make sense even in the most minimally
> supported system that it would default to a more complex install method
> such as "network," or "PXE" why does the Centos install of Xen Manager
> installation wizard force you to only choose network install?
>
It sounds like your hardware does not have HVM support,
which means you can only run PV VMs.
Installation for PV (paravirtualized) VMs is only supported
by using netinstall in virt-manager.
HVM (fully virtualized) VMs can be installed from ISO image.
-- Pasi
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