Hello,
I have had nothing but nightmarish frustrations when attempting to create PV domUs in opensuse 11.4 when using vm-install or the virtual machine manager.
I can create HVM guests all I want without issue. PV, however, and absolutely nothing works. I have created PV guests on other platforms that use virt-install.
I have tried using a local http server attached to a mounted iso with the installation source. I have tried using a volume with an already-installed OS. I have tried many other methods.
I would like to know if anyone here has ever successfully installed a Xen PV guest using the virtual machine manager or vm-install. I have tried using the opensuse templates with all default settings and many others. Pretty much nothing works.
Examples:
When attempting to install a Debian Wheezy PV guest, I select OS type ‘other’ and provide the installation path as the network URL: Index of /debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-amd64/current
This returns "Error: the installation source is using an unsupported protocol: dev:/
I get the same above error when trying to install any OS from a network source if using ‘other’
When attempting to install an opensuse PV guest, I select OS type ‘opensuse’ and provide the installation path as the network URL (provided by the template): Index of /debug/distribution/11.4/repo/oss
This returns “Error: An error occurred while reading from the installation source. http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.4/repo/oss//INDEX.gz HTTP Error 404: Not found”
When attempting to install any PV guest via PXE boot, the ‘Installation Source’ always remains blank
When attempting to install any PV guest by mounting a block device (like an ISO) to install from, I get an error saying installing PV guests from cdrom is not supported
When attempting to use an already-installed HVM guest that does have a valid Xen kernel, I get an error saying that no kernel was found
The list goes on and on. I am really starting to hate virtual machine manager and vm-install, especially coming from an environment where virt-install works just fine to create PV guests.
My current version of vm-install is 0.4.31-0.4.1
My current version of virt-manager is 0.8.5-8.1
All I want, all I really want, is to be able to install Ubuntu PV guests. Any takers?