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