[Libvir] Re: Virtualization things.

Till Maas wrote:

> What I did so far was creating a new machine with a Fedora Live CD Image > and booted it. When I hit the Pause button, it appeared to be pressed, > but nothing happened. The machine still responded and the following error > appeared on the commandline, where I started virt-manager: > > ------------- > libvir: QEMU error : operation failed: suspend operation failed > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/console.py", line 389, in > control_vm_pause > self.vm.suspend() > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 365, in > suspend self.vm.suspend() > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 350, in > suspend if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainSuspend() failed', > dom=self) libvirt.libvirtError: virDomainSuspend() failed operation > failed: suspend operation failed > -------------- This is a bug. Do you know what version of libvirt & virt-manager this happens with? Suspend _ought_ to work with QEMU with libvirt >= 0.2.0.

> Then when I shut down the machine and clicked on "run", it did not boot > the ISO Image I selected while creating the machine, but only complained > that it could not boot from HD (which is true, because I did not install > anything to the HD) > > Then I wanted to delete the machine, but the "Delete" button was still > greyed out, even when I shut it down (Imho it should be available all the > time and provide a warning that the machine needs to be shut down before > it can be deleted). When I closed virt-manager and opened it again, then > I was able to delete the machine. > > But I cannot find a way to add an iso image to the machine or make it > boot the iso image I selected at creation time. I haven't played with live CDs & virt-manager at all, but I'll have a go. What live CD were you trying?

> Also the network selection seems not to work, when I want to add a > network interface, I can choose between virtual and shared device, but > both only have an empty list, where I have to select something to be able > to click on "Forward". This is another bug. If you get me the version of virt-manager, I'll look into it.