Virt-install Fedora 16 PV Guest at Xen 4.1.2 Ubuntu Oneiric Dom0

Install Xen Hypervisor via PPA Xen 4.1.2 with pygrub gpt support for Ubuntu Oneiric not regular one.Pygrub gpt support patches, published @xen-devel, have been back ported to Xen 4.1.2 for build in PPA mentioned above. Next: mount loop Fedora-16-TC1-x86_64-DVD.iso on /var/www/f16 run virt-install in VNC mode :-

virt-install --connect xen:/// --debug -n VF16 \
--vnc -p -r 2048 --vcpus=2 \
-f /dev/sda7 -l http://192.168.0.175/f16

Series of screen-shots bellow should be a fair




Done. Pygrub is loading F16 DomU with gnu partitioning







Start domain via virsh and connect with vncviewer localhost:0



Start domain via virt-manager and connect with vncviewer localhost:0


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