Install CentOS 5.2 & F9 PV DomUs at OpenSuse 11 Dom0 via local HTTP Server (all 64-bit)

Posted by dba477 on Oct 16, 2008 10:01 AM EDT
Oracle DBA Blog; By Boris Derzhavets 		Mail this story
Print this story

It’s well known that OpenSuse’s utility vm-install fails to perform RH PV guests install via NFS shares. Install from Internet repositories requires software download about 4GB of data for any CentOS 5.X of Fedora PV DomU. Corresponding ISO images have been copied to CentOS 5.2 box running Apache HTTP Server and located on same LAN. Then this images were loop mounted to corresponding folders under /var/www/html. This procedure provided an option for vm-install (via http) RH PV Guests at Xen 3.2.1 OpenSuse 11 Dom0 in pretty short time frame about 40-50 minutes for every DomU been installed.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Red Hat, SUSE

« Return to the newswire homepage

Subject Topic Starter Replies Views Last Post
Setup Apache at OpenSuse 11 Dom0 as CentOS 5.2 HTTP Mirror dba477 1 1,703 Oct 16, 2008 11:52 AM

You cannot post until you login.