Re: [libvirt] Create a new VM from an existent image?
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Cole Robinson<crobinso(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Jun Koi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To use libvirt, I am strying to use virt-install to create a new VM
> from an existent (KVM) VM image. I did the following steps:
>
> 1) run libvirtd with "libvirtd -d" (I use the latest libvirt git tree)
>
> 2) Run virt-install (0.400.3) with my existent image in img/img.winxp
>
> # virt-install --import -n winxp -f img/img.xp3 --vnc --hvm
> --accelerate --ram 800
>
That looks fine.
> However, this step returns error like:
>
> "ERROR Could not find usable default libvirt connection."
>
If 'virsh --connect qemu:///system' doesn't work, you probably didn't
configure your libvirt install correctly.
But it works! So the problem stays elsewhere.
Do you have any suggestion?
Thanks,
J
> Actually I am not sure that is the right way to use the new
--import
> option with virt-install. So that might be the problem?
>
> All the code are updated, and compiled from source on Ubuntu 8.04. Any help?
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
> J
>