Installing as a virtual machine under CentOS 5.9 -- how do I do this?

[Robert Heller]

How do I set up a paravirtualized VM running Darwin on a Xen 3.0.3 system with a CentOS 5.9 (2.6.18-348.3.1.el5xen) Dom0.  I downloaded Puredarwin-darwin_9.8-version_9L30.qcow2 from sourceforge and tried to fire it up and got this:

sauron.deepsoft.com% sudo virt-install -n darwin98 -r 1024 --arch=x86_64 --vcpus=1 --import \         --disk path=/dvdisos/Puredarwin-darwin_9.8-version_9L30.qcow2 \
    --disk path=/dev/sauron/darwin98,format=raw -w bridge:xenbr0 -m 00:16:3e:13:85:b7

Starting install...
Guest installation complete... restarting guest.
ERROR  
 POST operation failed: xend_post: error from xen daemon: (xend.err
"Error creating domain: Boot loader didn't return any data!")
Domain installation may not have been
 successful.  If it was, you can restart your domain
 by running 'virsh start darwin98'; otherwise, please
 restart your installation.
ERROR  
 POST operation failed: xend_post: error from xen daemon: (xend.err
"Error creating domain: Boot loader didn't return any data!")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 895, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 777, in main
    dom.create()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 333, in create
    if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError:
 POST operation failed: xend_post: error from xen daemon: (xend.err
"Error creating domain: Boot loader didn't return any data!")

What am I doing wrong?  I could not find a plain old ISO9660 image -- I know how to install from that. I have successfully installed CentOS 6.4 32 and 64 bit, Ubuntu 11 64-bit, Ubuntu 12.04.1 32 and 64 bit, Fedora 15 64-bit, and Mint 14 XFace 32-bit as Xen VMs.  I installed the Ubuntu and Mint systems by doing an bare metal install to a scratch disk and then doing a disk backup copy to a LVM volume -- the CentOS and Fedora systems have Xen installer kernels available, so they can be installed directly as VMs.

PS: Is there a plain mailing list for this group?  I really, really, really hate these forums.  They work poorly from a dial-up internet connection and the web-based editor is totally horrible.

[Daniel Bethe]

On Tuesday, April 9, 2013 3:58:49 PM UTC-5, Robert Heller wrote:

How do I set up a paravirtualized VM running Darwin on a Xen 3.0.3 system with a CentOS 5.9 (2.6.18-348.3.1.el5xen) Dom0.  I downloaded Puredarwin-darwin_9.8-version_9L30.qcow2 from sourceforge and tried to fire it up and got this:

Hi.  Amongst the many virtual machines that PureDarwin has been run on, I don't know if anyone has yet done exactly that and documented it.  I'll defer to the group.

Google Groups are also mailing lists, yes.