Re: [libvirt] [virt-tools-list] Provision through virt-manager not supported on para-virtualized Xen?

2012/2/2 Cole Robinson <crobinso(a)redhat.com&gt;: > On 02/02/2012 08:05 AM, Cheer Xiao wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I was setting up libvirt and virt-manager for managing Xen VMs. But >> when I hit "New" in virt-manager to provision a new VM, virt-manager >> gives me the error: "No install options available for this >> connection." >> >> The hypervisor being used is para-virtualized Xen, running on Debian Squeeze. >> >> lux-002# xm info >> host          : lux-002 >> release         : 2.6.32-5-xen-686 >> version         : #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 19:46:09 UTC 2012 >> machine         : i686 >> nr_cpus         : 4 >> nr_nodes        : 1 >> cores_per_socket    : 1 >> threads_per_core    : 2 >> cpu_mhz         : 3200 >> hw_caps         : >> bfebfbff:20100000:00000000:00000180:0000641d:00000000:00000001:00000000 >> virt_caps        : >> total_memory      : 8191 >> free_memory       : 1150 >> node_to_cpu       : node0:0-3 >> node_to_memory     : node0:1150 >> node_to_dma32_mem    : node0:578 >> max_node_id       : 0 >> xen_major        : 4 >> xen_minor        : 0 >> xen_extra        : .1 >> xen_caps        : xen-3.0-x86_32p >> xen_scheduler      : credit >> xen_pagesize      : 4096 >> platform_params     : virt_start=0xf5800000 >> xen_changeset      : unavailable >> xen_commandline     : placeholder com1=9600,8n1 console=com1,vga >> cc_compiler       : gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8) >> cc_compile_by      : waldi >> cc_compile_domain    : debian.org >> cc_compile_date     : Mon Nov  7 09:18:26 CET 2011 >> xend_config_format   : 4 >> lux-002# libvirtd --version >> libvirtd (libvirt) 0.8.3 >> > > libvirt pokes into the host machine to try and figure out it's virt > capabilities. So something must be going wrong there. Here's the function it > uses in libvirt code: > > http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=src/xen/xen_hypervisor.c;h... > > Something must be funky or unexpected with /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities > This is how it looks: lux-002% cat /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities xen-3.0-x86_32p So, is provision through on para-virtualized Xen *supposed* to be supported or not?