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here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the the location must be the root directory of an install tree. company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Unix & Linux couldn't find hvm kernel for ubuntu tree Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Unix & Linux Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of Linux, error validating install location: could not find an installable distribution at FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the virt-install location iso top Install VM from command line with virt-install up vote 4 down vote favorite 2 Disclaimer : I now use virt-manager to create and manage my VM and it is really a life saver. It can be used remotely if the host does not have graphical display. The occurrences of vnc in the installation guides I had found lead me to think that using the recommended procedure, I would install X stuff either on host,

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guest or both. Absolutely not. My mistake. If you are in the same situation and state of (lack of) knowledge, think twice before trying to install the VM from command line. I'm trying to install a Debian VM in a Debian host using virt-install and I don't know how to pass it the .iso image. virt-install --connect qemu:///system --virt-type kvm --name prod --ram 6144 --disk /srv/vm/prod.qcow,format=qcow2,size=10 --location=/home/jerome/debian-8.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso --network bridge=br0 --os-type linux --os-variant debianwheezy --extra-args='console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 serial' Starting install... Retrieving file info... | 160 B 00:00 ... ERROR Could not find an installable distribution at '/home/jerome/debian-8.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso' The location must be the root directory of an install tree. Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running: virsh --connect qemu:///system start prod otherwise, please restart your installation. root@versailles:/etc# The solutions I have seen seem quite twisted, like using apache to serve locally the .iso image as if it was from a distant place. Linux Mint 14 : install Ubuntu 12.10 Server within KVM via CLI ( no GUI ) [Xen-users] installing a vm with virt-install (It is Xen but it looks like it is the same issue anyway. I can't believe it is that complicated. Is it? man virt-install says: If you want to use those options with CDROM media, you have a few options: *

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have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About --extra-args only work if specified with --location Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads virt-install serial console with us Server Fault Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Server Fault is a question and answer site for system and network administrators. Join them; http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/207090/install-vm-from-command-line-with-virt-install it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Cannot install windows guest using virt-install up vote 1 down vote favorite 1 I am trying to install a windows guest (Windows Sever 2012 64-bit) on http://serverfault.com/questions/606787/cannot-install-windows-guest-using-virt-install my CentOS 6.4 64-bit system using virt-install command. Command: /usr/sbin/virt-install --graphics vnc,port=5903,listen=127.0.0.1,password=redhat --noautoconsole --name=myos2 --ram=1024 --arch=x86_64 --vcpus=1 --hvm --disk path=/media/skrtbhtngr/wins2012,size=32 -m 66:55:44:33:22:00 --location=/root/Desktop/OS_Images/en_windows_server_2012_x64_dvd_915478.iso Output: Starting install... ERROR Could not find an installable distribution at '/root/Desktop/OS_Images/en_windows_server_2012_x64_dvd_915478.iso' The location must be the root directory of an install tree. Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running: virsh --connect qemu:///system start myos2 otherwise, please restart your installation. Also, when I use Virtual Machine Manager, the OS installation starts successfully. Now, this happens with all windows guests (Win7 etc...). What I couldn't figure out where I am wrong? PS: I am new to the world of virtualization! virtual-machines virt-install share|improve this question asked Jun 20 '14 at 14:51 skrtbhtngr 1085 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote accepted I think you want to use --cdrom instead of --location to point to the ISO. Then the VM should boot to the ISO. http://opennod

xen guest with virt-installer [Centos 5.3] Installing, Configuring, Troubleshooting server daemons such as Web and Mail http://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28395 Post Reply Print view Search Advanced search 4 posts • https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2011-November/msg00083.html Page 1 of 1 sveinh Posts: 3 Joined: 2009/05/03 01:00:14 Can't install debian xen guest with virt-installer [Centos 5 Quote Postby sveinh » 2009/05/03 01:08:36 I have tried to install debian 5.0 and 4.0 without any luck. I have both tried virt-manager an install and virt-install with both debian-501-i386-netinst.iso, and full dvd.I't always gives me the same error: Code: Select allStarting install...
Could not find an installable distribution at '/xen/debian-501-i386-netinst.iso'
Domain installation may not have been
successful. If it was, you can restart your domain
by running 'virsh start test'; otherwise, please
restart your installation.
s?n, could not find 03 mai 2009 03:06:44 ERROR Could not find an installable distribution at '/xen/debian-501-i386-netinst.iso'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 560, in ?
main()
File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 492, in main
dom = guest.start_install(conscb, progresscb, wait=(not wait))
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 820, in start_install
self._prepare_install(meter)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/ParaVirtGuest.py", line 56, in _prepare_install
self._installer.prepare(guest = self, meter = meter)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 261, in prepare
self._prepare_kernel_and_initrd(guest, distro, meter)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 231, in _prepare_kernel_and_initrd
arch = arch)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 133, in acquireKernel
arch=arch)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 109, in _storeForDistro
raise ValueError, _("Could not find an installable distribution at '%s'" % baseuri)
ValueError: Could not find an installable distribution at '/xen/debian-501-i386-netinst.iso'
Top Cthulu Posts: 1 Joined: 2009/08/20 19:02:27 Re: Can't install debian xen guest with virt-installer [Centos 5.3] Quote Postby Cthulu

com" Subject: [libvirt-users] How to use virt-install and http to install openbsd VM in KVM? Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:10:44 -0800 Hi, Not quite sure if this is the right forum for this question. My requirement is to http boot openbsd in KVM. This works fine with RHEL6 guest install but not with OpenBSD. I loop mounted the openbsd installer on the http server. My Http server directory looks like: [root uefiserver vm-openbsd]# ll total 5 drwxr-xr-x 3 root kmem 2048 Aug 17 09:35 5.0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root kmem 2048 Aug 17 09:35 etc -r--r--r-- 1 root root 82 Aug 17 09:35 TRANS.TBL My browser can see this directory no problem. And KVM output: [root lid-hs22-2 ~]# virt-install --hvm --connect qemu:///system --network=bridge:br0 --location=http://10.10.36.134/vm-openbsd/ --name=vm5-openbsd --ram=2048 --vcpus=2 --os-type=unix --file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/vm5-openbsd.img --file-size=20 ERROR Error creating cdrom disk: Could not find an installable distribution at 'http://10.10.36.134/vm-openbsd/' The location must be the root directory of an install tree. [root lid-hs22-2 ~]# IS this supported? Did I use the right semantics? Thanks. - David [Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Thread Index] [Date Index] [Author Index]