<div dir="ltr">Lori <br><br>You were right! I used a 3GB disk and it worked fine. Using the stock ISO, Grub installed on it without incident!<br><br>Here is the df -h<br><br>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br>
/dev/vda1 2.4G 1.1G 1.3G 47% /<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br>Now, unlike the Amazon images, the full 3GB is allocated, instead of ~ 300MB or so, and is not qcow2 format. It says x86 boot sector and lots of other info.<br>
<br>virt-install refuses to allow me to specify a format when creating a new instance with a new hard disk image.<br><br>file:<br>t1.img: QEMU QCOW Image (v2), 2361393152 bytes<br>t2.img: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 32, startsector 2048, 5242880 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x5, starthead 155, startsector 5246974, 1042434 sectors, code offset 0x63<br>
<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265M Aug 2 00:49 t1.img<br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.0G Aug 2 14:08 t2.img<br><br>Any way around this?<br><br>On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 6:57 PM, L.D. Paniak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com" target="_blank">ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
Maybe try a larger disk? size=4? If your install allocates swap on
disk= system RAM, then you need even more space. I do not think
that the Amazon images include swap. I recall adding zram for EC2
instances.<div><div class="h5"><br>
<div>On 08/01/2014 06:31 PM, Khalid
Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
</div>
</div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5">
<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 6:20 PM, L.D. Paniak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com" target="_blank">ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<div class="gmail_extra">
<div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> What type of disk
do you use for your VM in KVM?</div>
</blockquote>
<div><br>
For the plain ISO install, I used: <br>
--disk path=./p1.img,bus=virtio,size=2<br clear="all">
Which did not work because of grub.<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_extra">
I tried specifying format=vmdk but virt-install
complained.<br>
<br>
</div>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">For the Ubuntu Amazon images, I
used:<br>
<br>
--disk path=./test.img,format=qcow2,bus=virtio<br>
<br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">
Which did work, but the image was premade.<br>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>Fast Reliable Drupal<br>Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.<br>
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra<br>Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci<br>For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken<br>
</div></div>