Re: SL6 pvops guest on SL5 Xen host
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. (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 -- Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 t...@fnal.gov http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Computing Division, Scientific Computing Facilities, Grid Facilities Department, FermiGrid Services Group, Group Leader. Lead of FermiCloud project. -- Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 t...@fnal.gov http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Computing Division, Scientific Computing Facilities, Grid Facilities Department, FermiGrid Services Group, Group Leader. Lead of FermiCloud project.
Re: SL6 pvops guest on SL5 Xen host
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
