On 4/28/11, Jussi Hirvi listmember@greenspot.fi wrote:
For me creating the images does not take any noticeable time. Only when the installer formats the "disk" to ext3 (or others), it will take some time. Probably your syntax does not work. Try the syntax in my example, like
--disk path=/kvmail/mail.img,size=290 \
(making sure that the image does not exist beforehand).
Thanks for pointing out that it really is abnormal because it takes about 2 hours for virt-install to create a 190G disk for me. I'll try this on my next attempt.
You are probably reading some outdated howtos. No wonder, because where are the up-to-date howtos?? Red Hat Virtualization Guide is a nice book, but only an overview - it does not go into the gritty details.
That's generally the issue, I've tried to use mostly information from the newer pages/articles but still, most of them skip important caveats/notes like the fact while specifying the ISO is good enough for the GUI, it doesn't work with the CLI.
I just got the double slash too on one installation try. I believe the double slash is an error of the error messaging. :-) If so, it only shows the level of "sophistication" of virt-install.
Damn!
So it should. But that only "sanitizes" the error message, and erroneously (producing a double slash). :-)
But in any case, since I tried all kinds of variations on host IP and directory, including stupidities like Centos56/images/ just in case. So this doesn't seem to be the problem.
If this is problem in Anaconda or virt-install, I am not sure.
Should be an anaconda issue I think since this is entirely within the virtualized environment already?