Re: CentOS 5.6 xen local install option greyed out (was RE: [Xen-users] Easiest OS to use for xen 4.0?)

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:48:01AM -0500, Beasley, Julien wrote:
> Just wanted to follow up that installing Cent0S 5.6 and upgrading to xen 4.0 
> was fairly easy. I followed Grant McWilliam's guide with slight 
> modifications. However, when I run virt-manager, and press the "New" button 
> for a new VM, the option for Local install media is greyed out! The only 
> available option is Network Install.
> 
> Would anyone have thoughts on why the local install button would be greyed 
> out? Needless to say this is problematic for creating my domU!
> 

virt-manager only supports installing Xen PV domUs from network boot/mirror.
It's been like that always. At least Rhel/Centos/Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu 
installers 
can be network booted as Xen PV domU.

virt-manager allows you to install Xen HVM guests from ISO image.

-- Pasi


> Julien
> 
> PS: Here are the steps I used to upgrade to Xen 4.1.1 on CentOS 5.6
> 
> > cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
> > wget http://www.gitco.de/repo/GITCO-XEN4.1.1_x86_64.repo
> > yum groupremove Virtualization
> > yum update
> > yum clean all
> > yum groupinstall Virtualization
> 
> #optional: edit /etc/grub.conf to have default=0
> 
> > reboot
> > /usr/sbin/xm dmesg
> __  __            _  _    _   _ 
>  \ \/ /___ _ __   | || |  / | / |
>   \  // _ \ '_ \  | || |_ | | | |
>   /  \  __/ | | | |__   _|| |_| |
>  /_/\_\___|_| |_|    |_|(_)_(_)_|

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