"The installation source is unusable" - trying to Create VM

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Hi All,

I am running openSUSE 11.1. I installed the Hypervisor and tools and booted into: 2.6.27.23-0.1-xen

I’m trying to install Ubuntu LTS 8.04.3 as a guest using the “Create a Virtual Machine” GUI/wizard.

I specify “other” since no Debian-based distro is offered under “Type of Operating System”. Under “Installation Source” for “Operating System Installation” I Add a Virtual Disk of “phy:/dev/sr0” using protocol “phy”. It can obviously read the drive since it recognizes that it is 0.6 GB (the media contains a burned & bootable (from ISO) DVD - the files are extracted).

However, when I proceed I am thrown an Error:

“The installation source is unusable.” with Details:

“0.6 GB CD-ROM or DVD (phy:/dev/sr0)”

Am I supposed to do something different?

Thanks in advance!

Cheers

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I tried several of my ISO images and am getting the same error. running Suse 11.1 with same version of Xen.

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bwdave532 wrote:
> I tried several of my ISO images and am getting the same error. running
> Suse 11.1 with same version of Xen.

from where and how are you getting your iso images?

you might benefit from http://tinyurl.com/6jwtg9 in both the where and
the how to make sure you have a good image…

where: step 1

how: steps 2 or 3

–
goldie

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I’m having the same problem of blender1968.

I downloaded the images directly from ubuntu website.
I also tryed to use directly the iso files. But I’m stil getting the same error: “The installation source is unusable”.

Is there anybody that was able to install ubuntu VM on a Suse dom0?

Thanks,
Massimiliano

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I’m getting the same error message.
I have other DomU’s up and running with no issues, including Win2003 server and other instances of OpenSuSE; but the Ubuntu install won’t run.

Does Xen or virtual machine manager need an update to recognise other operating systems?

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Bpa-eng wrote:
> I have other DomU’s up and running with no issues, including Win2003
> server and other instances of OpenSuSE; but the Ubuntu install won’t
> run.

sounds like four posters to this thread are having problems running
Ubuntu in an openSUSE spawned/supportd Xen…

some say they are running other OSs–i wonder if it is a Xen problem,
an openSUSE problem or an Ubundu problem…

i also wonder if any of the four posters logged a bug, i’ve not looked
but maybe one (or four) of those with the problem will:
http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports

it could be helpful in finding the solution, and work around…

or, maybe someone who wants to run Ubuntu in Xen should ask on a
Ubuntu forum whats up with that…perhaps it is their problem alone,
and their bug to fix…

–
palladium

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Try changing the mode from paravirtualized to full VT when creating the domU… Worked for me.