Hi everyone: using this command to install a kvm virtual machine: virt-install --connect qemu:///system \ --name p3k0401 \ --ram 2048 \ --file //dev/VolGroup01/p3k0401logvol \ --accelerate \ -s 10 \ --nographics \ --hvm \ --location='http://10.1.4.80' I get: Starting install... Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 1.8 MB 00:00 Retrieving file initrd.img... | 7.1 MB 00:00 ERROR internal error Domain p3k0401 didn't show up Domain installation may not have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running 'virsh start p3k0401'; otherwise, please restart your installation. ERROR internal error Domain p3k0401 didn't show up Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 889, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 751, in main start_time, guest.start_install) File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 813, in do_install dom = install_func(conscb, progresscb, wait=(not wait)) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 541, in start_install return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 633, in _do_install self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 974, in createLinux if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self) libvirtError: internal error Domain p3k0401 didn't show up On the /var/log/libvirt/qemu/p3k0401.log: LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin HOME=/ /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -S -M rhel5.4.0 -m 1024 -smp 1 -name p3k0401 -uuid 7658c102-0738-724c-40eb-e1c58b2c2369 -domid 3 -nographic -monitor pty -pidfile /var/run/libvirt/qemu//p3k0401.pid -no-reboot -boot c -kernel /var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-vmlinuz.O_SOVo -initrd /var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-initrd.img.0ba0Fp -append method=http://10.1.4.80 -drive file=//dev/VolGroup01/p3k0401logvol,if=ide,index=0,cache=none -net nic,macaddr=54:52:00:15:c4:50,vlan=0 -net tap,fd=16,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 -serial pty -parallel none -usb Supported machines are: pc Standard PC (alias of pc-0.12) pc-0.12 Standard PC (default) pc-0.11 Standard PC, qemu 0.11 pc-0.10 Standard PC, qemu 0.10 isapc ISA-only PC xenpv Xen Para-virtualized PC And my packages installed: # rpm -qa | grep qemu qemu-0.12.4-1.el5.rf # rpm -qa | grep kvm etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5.centos kmod-kvm-83-164.el5_5.12 kvm-83-164.el5_5.12 # rpm -qa | grep libvirt libvirt-0.6.3-33.el5_5.1 libvirt-0.6.3-33.el5_5.1 libvirt-python-0.6.3-33.el5_5.1 # uname -a Linux gs1p304 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Please any pointer is appreciated... Thanks Cris