Re: [Fedora-xen] guest debian on fedora host with virt-manager

On 1/25/07, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: Just for the records, also on this list(same question came to xen-users): one cannot throw just any mirror in any installer and hope it works. Different distributions do not only have a different mirror setup, these two don't even use the same package type. So it's really asking too much to just feed the mirror address in. But I think saying "the debian mirror is not set up right" is a bit short sighted, and has the tendency to sound like "debian is wrong", while one could also argue "virt-manager is not good enough to handle debian" - both are wrong, because from both sides, these things cannot be easily expected - bootstraping is complex. For those who want to bootstrap Debian VMs on Fedora: I was quite successful running debootstrap and xen-tools installed from sources, or with an rpm created with alien, (which is unforunately only available in Debian and SuSE) Still, one problem remains unsolved, it is described in the thread "Getting Debian domU running on fedora with fedora-native packages (works with xensource binaries) " And it basically means, you can create the system image, but with the Fedora Xen packages, it just doesn't boot, while the exact same image runs 100% flawless with Xensource Xen binaries on fedora. It's quite simply documented in some blog on the net - didn't try it and don't have that link at hand, but I think anyway that running these full fledged manual installers is not really the best way to go. Better look at something simple like debootstrap. For example, yum installs of SuSE on Fedora also work well, the only problem that keeps coming up is that Fedora kernel is incompatible with most other distributions's images - only for SuSE at least it works after some tweaking while the debian problem mentioned above is, at least for me, still unsolved. Henning