[CentOS] Xen Install manager won't let me install anything.

Thu May 5 13:09:38 UTC 2011
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

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