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

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