Bug 115802

Summary: The "Virtual Machine Installation (XEN)" on YaST Control Center doesn't work.
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Yunfeng Zhao <yunfeng.zhao>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Ladislav Slezák <lslezak>
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86   
OS: SUSE Other   
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Attachments: y2log

Description Yunfeng Zhao 2005-09-08 08:57:25 UTC 
I tried to use "Virtual Machine Installation (XEN)" installing a XEN virtual 
machine. But it dosen't work for me.

Reproduce steps.
1. boot Suse Linux 10.0 Beta 4 with XEN Linux kernel.
2. Run "YaST Control Center"
3. Click "Virtual Machine Installation (XEN)" and follow its steps to install 
a virtual machine.
Comment 1 Martin Lasarsch 2005-09-08 10:17:26 UTC 
could you please provide more information what exactly the problem is? 
 
and please attach /var/log/YaST2/y2log
Comment 2 Yunfeng Zhao 2005-09-08 10:49:22 UTC 
After I configed the memory size of VM,domain name, disk images... and 
clicked "Accept" button, the dialog window of "Virtual Machine Installation 
(XEN)"  dispeared without any info.
I cannot use "Virtual Machine Installation (XEN)" creating a XEN guest os.

The y2log is attached. See below
Comment 3 Yunfeng Zhao 2005-09-08 10:51:00 UTC 
Created attachment 49176 [details]
y2log
Comment 4 Ladislav Slezák 2005-09-08 12:51:09 UTC 
It seems that you don't have any network installation source configured, right?

XEN requires network installation source because a XEN VM cannot be installed
from CD/DVD. A check is missing to not continue if there is no network source.
Comment 5 Yunfeng Zhao 2005-09-08 14:24:47 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> It seems that you don't have any network installation source configured, 
right?
> XEN requires network installation source because a XEN VM cannot be installed
> from CD/DVD. A check is missing to not continue if there is no network 
source.
Why creates XEN VM need to access network, to download root fs image?
Comment 6 Ladislav Slezák 2005-09-09 06:21:52 UTC 
Yes, root image and all RPM packages are downloaded from a network source. There
is no CD access in Xen VM (AFAIK it should be supported later). In freshly
created VM you have just empty (virtual) disk and (virtual) ethernet card,
nothing more. So there is only one way how to get an installation system and
packages - over network.
Comment 7 Ladislav Slezák 2005-09-09 10:33:06 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114740 ***