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

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 07:32:48PM +0900, Jun Koi wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Jun Koi <junkoi2004(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am frustrated searching for a quick-start documentation for virsh, > > just to no avail. Any help is greatly appreciated! > > > > Here is what I did: > > - Compile and install libvirt, virt-manager, virt-install and > > virt-viewer from source code. This is done (on Ubuntu 8.04). > > - Now I want to do install a new VM with QEMU or KVM. I got the below > > error with virt-install: > > > > > > # virt-install -c qemu:///system --name jeos2 --ram 500 --file > > img.jeos2 --cdrom jeos-8.04.1-jeos-i386.iso > > Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:19:10 ERROR virConnectOpen() failed > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 496, in <module> > > main() > > File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 345, in main > > conn = cli.getConnection(options.connect) > > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/cli.py", line 92, in > > getConnection > > return libvirt.open(connect) > > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 139, in open > > if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpen() failed') > > libvirtError: virConnectOpen() failed > > > > > > > > How to fix this? Perhaps I need to run libvirtd before using virsh??? > > I tried to run libvirtd to see if that fixes the problem, but got the > below error: Yes, for QEMU you need to have the libvirtd daemon up & running. Before attempting to connect with virt-install, make sure you can connect with virsh, eg as a good test run: virsh --connect qemu:///system capabilities > # libvirtd > libvir: QEMU error : internal error failed to set bridge forward delay to 0 > Failed to autostart network 'default': internal error failed to set > bridge forward delay to 0 This suggests you are missing the 'brctl' command - it is part of the bridge-utils packages