The wierdness we saw turns out to be pilot error on our part, not
any bug in virt-install.

Steve


On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Steven Timm wrote:

> We have been seeing some wierdness in SLF5.4's virt-install in the
> last couple days too, trying to install SLF5.4/x86_64 paravirt machines.
> I think I'm on to something and will try it and post if it works.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
>
>> Hi Troy & Connie,
>> 
>> paravirt installs of 4.8/64 are broken. The installer claims that the boot 
>> media do not match the install tree. The .buildstamp in 
>> 4.8/x86_64images/xen/initrd.img looks like this:
>> 
>> 200906191446
>> Scientific Linux
>> 48
>> SL
>> 
>> while in images/SL/pxeboot it's
>> 
>> 200907070939
>> Scientific Linux
>> 48
>> SL
>> 
>> I tried to modify the timestamp, which makes it possible to start the 
>> installation with that image, but then it fails with other weird errors 
>> (not enough space on /).
>> 
>> Do you have a working initrd for xen pv installs around?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 	Stephan
>> 
>> 
>
>

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