Problem solved:
I added the "--nonsparse" option to my virt-install command and discovered that the disk was running out of space (doh!).
Over and out.
Thanks, Jim Trainor
Jim Trainor wrote:
You're correct there were some typos there. Sorry about that.
Here it is the corrected (cut/pasted!) virt-install command. I just ran this with the same result reported in my first message:
virt-install --paravirt --name=vm-1 --ram=512 --file=/vm/1/vm-1.img--file-size=4 --nographics --location=nfs:192.168.1.101:/mnt/iso
That starts the virtual machine to initiate the install, Anaconda connects to a local nfs server to access the Centos5.2 distribution, and the install proceeds as expected. The "Error mounting device xvda1 as /boot." failure happens after Anaconda finishes formatting /boot.
I have selinux turned off, so that shouldn't be getting the way. It's Centos 5.2 32bit if that matters.
It does appear the disk image was created and was written (to some extent) correctly:
[root@pipit ~]# ls -lh /vm/1/vm-1.img -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.1G Jan 14 05:03 /vm/1/vm-1.img
[root@pipit ~]# file /vm/1/vm-1.img /vm/1/vm-1.img: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 1, startsector 63, 208782 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x8e, starthead 0, startsector 208845, 8177085 sectors
However, attempting to start vm-1 yields the following:
[root@pipit ~]# virsh start vm-1 libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error creating domain: Boot loader didn't return any data!") error: Failed to start domain vm-1
Thanks, Jim Trainor
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Jim Trainor wrote on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:22:38 -0500:
virt-install --paravirt -name vm-1 --ram 512 --file /vm/1/vm-1.img --file-size -4 --nographcs --location:nfs:192.168.1.101:/mnt/iso
did you type this or did you copy this from the shell? There are several errors/typos in it.
virt-install -p --location=ftp://...... --noautoconsole --nographics -- file=/home2/vm/d-minimal.img --file-size=1 --name=d-mini --ram=256
does work.
Even if it's possible to omit the equals signs I would think that "-4" *means* "minus 4" .... And ":" for the "=" are surely not allowed I guess.
Kai
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