Problem about installing guesting OS with virt-manger of Fedora Core 6

Hi,

I installed the Fedora Core 6 on my computer.

Now I was trying to install the Fedora Core 6 guesting OS in
my computer.
I use the Virtual Machine Manager to do this.

First, I create an empty file, box1, like this:

cat > box1

I didn't type anthing into the file. SO the file is empty.
(Is this a
correct approach to create a file for the guesting OS
storage space ?)

Then I set the /home/jane/xen/box1 as the storage space to
install my
guesting OS. I chose Fedora COre 6 again as my guest os. The
problem is:
When the installation comes to selecting disk partition
part, there is no
available drive there. I print the screen and attached the
picture.

I get stucked there and can't continue the guest os
installation.

COuld you please give me some hint? THank you very much.

Regards,
Angel




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On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:19:31PM -0500, taoj2cs.rpi.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed the Fedora Core 6 on my computer.
> 
> Now I was trying to install the Fedora Core 6 guesting
OS in my computer.
> I use the Virtual Machine Manager to do this.
> 
> First, I create an empty file, box1, like this:
> 
> cat > box1

I think you'll need more than 0 bytes in which to install
the guest
OS packages 

> I didn't type anthing into the file. SO the file is
empty. (Is this a
> correct approach to create a file for the guesting OS
storage space ?)

Don't create the file manually - let virt-manager do it for
you - it
will give you option to specify the desired size &
location

> Then I set the /home/jane/xen/box1 as the storage space
to install my
> guesting OS. I chose Fedora COre 6 again as my guest
os. The problem is:
> When the installation comes to selecting disk partition
part, there is no
> available drive there. I print the screen and attached
the picture.

There is no drive because you created a zero byte file. Let
virt-manager
create it, in addition it needs to be under
/var/lib/xen/images rather
than /home.

Regards,
Dan.
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