Sorry for the late reply but I was finally able to install and run Centos2.1 thanks to Filip. Previously I was trying to edit the xml file while setup was currently running due to which changes would be implemented on next reboot. I tried to work with virsh too but it was of not much help.
On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 19:51, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 03:14:25PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 03:31:38PM +0530, Harsh chopra wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > I was trying to install Centos 2.1 on the virtual machine, > > > > Ambitious! Note that older operating systems often don't work in > > qemu, not for any particular reason but just because they don't get > > much attention and things regress, drivers in particular. Or the > > drivers such as IDE don't emulate corners which are needed by the old > > OS. For example I tried running some really ancient Linux versions in > > qemu a while back with no success at all. > > > > Having said that I have run RHEL 3 recently on qemu and that's fairly > > similar to 2.1. > > > > > the installation > > > was complete 50% but then it asked to insert the second installation > iso > > > file. > > > i.e. "Please insert disc 2 in cdrom" > > > I tried to change the XML file and insert the line > > > <source file = "/home/..."/> > > > under device name but nothing helped. > > > > When you say you "tried to change the XML file" - how did you do that? > > You should use ‘virsh edit <guest>’ only, and not attempt to edit any > > XML file directly. Or of course you can use virt-manager as the other > > reply suggested - it essentially does the same thing as virsh edit. > > Actually "virsh edit" is not what you need in this case. > > That will update the persistent XML config only. > > For a multi-stage installer, you need to perform a CD media change > in the live VM. IIRC the following should work: > > $ virsh change-media $GUESTNAME /dev/hdc --update /path/to/iso > > This is equivalent to using "--eject" followed by "--insert /path/to/iso" > > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: https://berrange.com -o- > https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| > |: https://libvirt.org -o- > https://fstop138.berrange.com :| > |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- > https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| > >
