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
>
>
>
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