Jun Koi wrote: > Hi, > > To use libvirt, I am strying to use virt-install to create a new VM > from an existent (KVM) VM image. I did the following steps: > > 1) run libvirtd with "libvirtd -d" (I use the latest libvirt git tree) > > 2) Run virt-install (0.400.3) with my existent image in img/img.winxp > > # virt-install --import -n winxp -f img/img.xp3 --vnc --hvm > --accelerate --ram 800 > That looks fine. > However, this step returns error like: > > "ERROR    Could not find usable default libvirt connection." > If 'virsh --connect qemu:///system' doesn't work, you probably didn't configure your libvirt install correctly.

> Actually I am not sure that is the right way to use the new --import > option with virt-install. So that might be the problem? > > All the code are updated, and compiled from source on Ubuntu 8.04. Any help? > > > Thanks a lot, > J >

Jun Koi wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Cole Robinson<crobinso(a)redhat.com> wrote: >> Jun Koi wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> To use libvirt, I am strying to use virt-install to create a new VM >>> from an existent (KVM) VM image. I did the following steps: >>> >>> 1) run libvirtd with "libvirtd -d" (I use the latest libvirt git tree) >>> >>> 2) Run virt-install (0.400.3) with my existent image in img/img.winxp >>> >>> # virt-install --import -n winxp -f img/img.xp3 --vnc --hvm >>> --accelerate --ram 800 >>> >> That looks fine. >> >>> However, this step returns error like: >>> >>> "ERROR    Could not find usable default libvirt connection." >>> >> If 'virsh --connect qemu:///system' doesn't work, you probably didn't >> configure your libvirt install correctly. >> > > But it works! So the problem stays elsewhere. > > Do you have any suggestion? > Hmm, then you probably need this patch to virtinst, since our URI detection likely isn't as thorough as libvirt: http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-virt.cgi/applications/virtinst--devel/...