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> 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.
Also, use the --debug flag if you want to see more useful
output related specifically to what virt-install is doing.
- Cole