http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631237 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631237#c0 Summary: Installation under Xen as domU refuses to find installation media by default Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: darryl.miles@darrylmiles.org QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 Having applied the kernel-xen and xen-tools updates from the respective repositories from OBS for kernel 2.6.24.3. It is not possible to actually start a domU. However no amount of configuring YaST2 with the extra="install=device://xvdc/" can make it find the installation media by itself. I have tried the Xen DomU using a disk=[] spec of "phy:/dev/sr0,xvdc:cdrom,r" and also "phy:/dev/sr0,hda:cdrom,r" and it yields the same results. When the domU boots up the first dialog by YaST2 is a red one "Could not find the openSUSE repository. Activating manual setup program." This bug reports seeks to fix this error so that YaST2 has no problem finding the installation media from inside the domU. It is perfectly possible to manually specify the location of the media by following the following instructions (once you get the red warning dialog up on bootup): * Click "OK" it dismiss red dialog. * Select your Language, click "OK" * Select your Country, click "OK" * Select "Start Installation" * Select "Start Installation or Update" * Select "Hard Disk" * Specify "xvdc" or "hda" (based on your Xen config setup, both work ok, although not the example above indicate /dev/hda1 but the /dev/ should not be specified) * Specify "/" for the source dir. Now the installer starts ok. This bug seeks to make this happen either from automatic media scanning of I have also tried the following Xen configs disk = [ ..., "file:/foo/openSUSE-11.3-x86_64.iso,xvdh,r" ] extra = "method=hd:xvdh" In this situation I get the "Make sure that CD number 1 is in your drive" and now way past this using the "OK" button, have to "Back" and go through the procedure above, but specifying "xvdh" for the device. So the problem is not with Xen configuration the block device and data is available it is just that YaST2 does not find it by default. Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.