On Jan 18, 2012, at 22:09 , Steven Timm wrote: > Sorry for the fermi-ized url's below--but if anyone > has been able to make SL6 on SL5 work with the corresponding > vanilla SL, please let me know too.
Works fine here. But maybe that's just due to of a couple of compatibility symlinks we have: EFI -> os/EFI GPL -> os/GPL Packages -> os/Packages SL -> . images -> os/images repodata -> os/repodata And as the location, we specify http://.../SL/6.1/x86_64 just like we would for SL5. Regards, Stephan > > (SL6 guest on SL6 host works fine with virt-install). > > Thanks > > Steve Timm > > > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Steven Timm wrote: > >> Has anyone yet successfully been able to install a SL6 guest >> on a SL5 Xen host? according to TUV it is supposed to be supported >> but I am having difficulty figuring out what the "location" >> URL should be for SL6. >> >> In the SL5 on SL5 case I just use the same url that >> I would use for a normal http install, namely >> http://linux.fnal.gov/linux/slf57/x86_64/sites/Fermi/ >> >> the SL6 boot image seems to indicate that the corresponding URL is >> >> http://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/fermi/slf6.1/x86_64/os/ >> >> But when I try to do that with virt-install I get the error: >> >> >> ValueError: Could not find an installable distribution at >> http://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/fermi/slf6.1/x86_64/os/ >> >> >> The code in question, DistroManager.py has code for RHEL4 and RHEL5 >> as well as sl distro but no difference between version 5 and 6. >> Looks like it is trying to get ...images/xen/initrd.img and >> images/xen/vmlinuz, which are there. >> >> Is there a newer version of virt-install out there that might >> be able to handle the 6-on-5 case? >> >> Steve Timm -- Stephan Wiesand DESY - DV - Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany