I've copied the contents of the Oracle Linux 6.3 installation media to an directory that's exported via NFS:
san2:~ # ls -1 /srv/md128/repositories/oracle/6.3/os/x86_64/ EFI EULA eula.en_US eula.py GPL HighAvailability images isolinux LoadBalancer media.repo Packages README-en README-en.html RELEASE-NOTES-en RELEASE-NOTES-en.html RELEASE-NOTES-x86_64-en RELEASE-NOTES-x86_64-en.html RELEASE-NOTES-x86-en RELEASE-NOTES-x86-en.html repodata ResilientStorage RPM-GPG-KEY RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle ScalableFileSystem Server supportinfo TRANS.TBL UEK2 ...and tried to use the directory to install an Oracle Linux VM with virt-install: xen2:~ # virt-install -p --name dns2 --ram 786 --disk /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-14945540000000000705f69534353492d73616e315f310000 --location nfs://192.168.0.2/srv/md128/repositories/oracle/6.3/os/x86_64/ --graphics none ...but virt-install complains: Starting install... ERROR Couldn't find xen kernel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux tree. If I use the NFS respository with virt-manager, virt-manager complains... Error: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, instance found This is a tried-and-true methodology: I use this method for installing CentOS & SuSE regularly: san2:~ # ls -1 /srv/md128/repositories/centos/6.3/os/x86_64/ CentOS_BuildTag .discinfo EFI EULA GPL images isolinux Packages RELEASE-NOTES-en-US.html repodata RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Debug-6 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Security-6 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Testing-6 .treeinfo xen2:~ # virt-install -p --name dns2 --ram 786 --disk /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-14945540000000000705f69534353492d73616e315f310000 --location nfs://192.168.0.2/srv/md128/repositories/centos/6.3/os/x86_64/ --graphics none What is it that's different about the Oracle Linux installation media that causes this failure? Is there a workaround? Eric Pretorious Truckee, CA
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