[xen-tools] Re: problem with fedora

[Steve Kemp]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 02:32:30PM +0100, Maurizio Marini wrote:

> i have a debian sarge ad guest of xen beta 3.2;
> i installed last xen tools and i created with no pain a debian guest; 

  Great.

> i tried 
> then fedora with no success, i think taht a small note like that u wrote on 
> gentoo http://lists.cvsrepository.org/xen-tools/Jun06/0017.html
> would be very apreciated.

  Short version;  Fedora is not supported.

  Long version; I  started work on supporting fedora and never got
 round to finishing it having no need.

  Take a look at /usr/lib/xen-tools/fedora.d/ and see that this
 directory of modifications to the core installation completed by
 rpmstrap is not complete...


> Installing your system with rpmstrap
> rpmstrap: warning: target directory /tmp/DgNLoyYhla already exists

  Harmless.

> warning: group lock does not exist - using root
> warning: group mail does not exist - using root

  Not sure what that means.

> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.57957: line 2: /dev/null: No such file or directory
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.57957: line 3: /dev/null: No such file or directory
> warning: can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory

  That seems strange.

  First thing I'd suggest is seeing if rpmstrap itself works:

  mkdir /tmp/blah
  rpmstrap stentz /tmp/blah

  If that works then we could look at putting together the rest
 of the fixes.  If it fails then please report a bug against the
 rpmstrap tool, and come back here when it is fixed.

> The output directory we've been given, /etc/xen, doesnt exist
> Aborting

  That looks serious.  Make sure you have /etc/xen as a directory
 or Xen won't work at all!

Steve
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