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

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.