Re: [libvirt] Re: virsh/virt-install for dummies

Jun Koi wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Cole Robinson <crobinso(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> Jun Koi wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Cole Robinson <crobinso(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>> >>>>> Yes, virsh works well: it returns few pages of xml data. >>>>> >>>>> However, "virt-install" still has problem like below. It seems to have >>>>> some thing with Xen? I dont install Xen on my machine. >>>>> >>>>> Could you give some hints to fix this?? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> J >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> # LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 virt-install -c qemu:///system --name jeos2 --ram >>>>> 500 --file img.jeos2 --cdrom jeos-8.04.1-jeos-i386.iso >>>>> >>>>> >>>> That command line has an error, you need to use --connect for the >>>> URI, -c == --cdrom. >>>> >>>> >>> Yes, that was a mistake. I changed -c to --connect, and get the error >>> "Unsupported virtualization type" now. How can I fix it? >>> >>> Thanks a lot, >>> J >>> >>> >>> # LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name jeos2 >>> --ram 500 --file img.jeos2 --cdrom jeos-8.04.1-jeos-i386.i >> The current virt-install release doesn't pick a useful default >> for virtualization type: it is just hardcoded to use paravirt. >> Since your host doesn't have paravirt capabilities it is >> throwing an error. This is fixed upstream: we will default >> to paravirt only if on a xen host, otherwise we use hvm. >> >> You'll need to specify --hvm and --accelerate as cli params if >> you want to install a kvm guest. > > Thanks for pointing out this pitfault. I added --hvm and --accelerate > to the command, and got the below error. Is it a bug, or smt else? > > Thanks, > J > > > # virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name jeos2 --ram 500 --file > img.jeos2 --cdrom jeos-8.04.1-jeos-i386.iso -v --accelerate --debug > Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:17:18 ERROR list index out of range > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 496, in <module> > main() > File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 367, in main > domain = guest.bestDomainType(options.accelerate) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/CapabilitiesParser.py", > line 177, in bestDomainType > return self.domains[-1] > IndexError: list index out of range Hmm, yeah we should check that and throw a more clear error message. However, the root cause is that your capabilities xml is screwy (posted a few messages back.) There is only a <domain> element for x86_64 qemu but you're host arch is reported as i686. What libvirt version are you using? What virt-install/python-virtinst version are you using?

Is kvm installed?

What distro are you on?