On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com> 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
Jun Koi wrote: 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