Re: [Xen-users] Unable to boot guest

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:02:43PM +0100, Henning Sprang wrote:
> On 2/19/07, Brad King <brad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I have just installed xen on fedora core 5. I used yum to install xen and 
> >kernel-xen0 (and their dependancies)
> >
> >I can reboot into the new domain0 without issue. When I try and configure 
> >a new domain using xenguest-install.py it gets to the point of wanting to 
> >install, and then fails.
> 
> I and some colleagues realized that this script is not always as
> reliable as one could wish.
> In many cases, it produces usable results, in some not.
> 
> You could try to use a newer version, as the one in FC5 is quite a bit
> more beta than the one in FC6, I think.

Yes, the xenguest-install.py from FC5 was the first ever version of that
tool. Things have been majorly improved in the versions of it present
in FC6 / RHEL-5 and later. It is also renamed to virt-install.

Dan.
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