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?