Hi, guest installs with virt-install or from virt-manager don't work on 5.1 beta hosts. You probably already have a fix, but anyway: this makes it work for me: --- /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py.orig 2007-12-02 14:01:01.000000000 +0100 +++ /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py 2007-12-02 15:06:48.000000000 +0100 @@ -232,7 +232,13 @@ return True return False - +# SL distro check +class SLImageStore(RedHatImageStore): + def isValidStore(self, fetcher, progresscb): + if fetcher.hasFile("SL", progresscb): + logging.debug("Detected an SL distro") + return True + return False # Suse image store is harder - we fetch the kernel RPM and a helper # RPM and then munge bits together to generate a initrd @@ -541,6 +547,8 @@ stores.append(RHELImageStore(baseuri, type, scratchdir)) if distro == "centos" or distro is None: stores.append(CentOSImageStore(baseuri, type, scratchdir)) + if distro == "sl" or distro is None: + stores.append(SLImageStore(baseuri, type, scratchdir)) if distro == "suse" or distro is None: stores.append(SuseImageStore(baseuri, type, scratchdir)) if distro == "debian" or distro is None: -- Stephan Wiesand DESY - DV - Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany