I have CentOS 6.6 installed on my notebook and would like to use QEMU to build a RHEL 6 machine. I created the OS tree under pub/rhel6. I can use a browser to get to that location. After I set up my configuration and start the install, the new machine starts to boot, but ends up stopping when it can't find:

ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/pub/rhel6/images/install.img


Though I can browse to that location and can find it under:

/var/ftp/pub/rhel6/images

I am thinking I have overlooked something simple.

To use qemu, normally you will have downloaded a CD/DVD disk image.
You use this CD image as the -cdrom part when starting qemu.
If you want to create a HDD image, use qemu-img to create an empty disk image, then use that as -hda part when starting.
Then you have to tell it which disk to boot from, the -boot option.

Good point fatmac.

Just to be sure however, brownwrap, are you saying that you booted to some media like a network install or other booted client and then tried to access this resource?

I don't have the book in front of me at the moment, but I followed the directions three times, each ending in deleting the VM. What I did was create a directory under the ftp server. I had previously installed vsftpd. So I mounted the ISO and copied everything to /var/ftp/pub/rhel6 and another for rhel7. I was following the directory, installed QEMU allocated resources and then booted the machine. Things started to go until the actually install started. I mean I followed the VM booting, etc. but it couldn't find the ftp site after that. I looked up the book errata and it said if one had trouble to turn of IPTables, which I did and it worked. I surprised it got that far if IPTables was blocking it, unless another protocol was used up to that point.

Thanks for the update and solution.