Re: ERROR Could not find an installable distribution at ....
On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 22:46 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to set up alpine Linux Guest OS using the below command
#virt-install --name=mfecdrupalalphine
--file=/linuxkvmguestosdisk/var/lib/libvirt/images/mfecdrupalalphine.img --file-size=100
--nonsparse --vcpus=2 --ram=6096 --network=bridge:br0 --os-type=linux
--os-variant=alpinelinux3.8 --graphics none
--location=/linuxkvmguestosdisk/var/lib/libvirt/isos/alpine-standard-3.11.3-x86_64.iso
--extra-args="console=ttyS0"
Starting install...
Retrieving file .treeinfo...
| 0 B 00:00:00
Retrieving file content...
| 0 B 00:00:00
ERROR Could not find an installable distribution at
'/linuxkvmguestosdisk/var/lib/libvirt/isos/alpine-standard-3.11.3-x86_64.iso': The
URL could not be accessed, maybe you mistyped?
The location must be the root directory of an install tree.
See virt-install man page for various distro examples.
The --location option is used when installing from a tree, which is
usually a URL like
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-amd64/
Since you're installing from a local .iso image, you need to use
the --cdrom option instead.
That won't work with --extra-args, but luckily the Alpine installer
is smart enough to figure out that there's no graphical console
connected to the guest and use ttyS0 automatically :)
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization