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 >> >> > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 [log in to unmask] http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Computing Division, Scientific Computing Facilities, Grid Facilities Department, FermiGrid Services Group, Assistant Group Leader.