On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:12:24PM -0700, JD wrote:

/virt-install \ --connect qemu:///system \ --name Fedora_14_i386 \ --ram 500 \ --disk path=/dev/sdc \ --network network:default \ --arch i386 \ --os-variant fedora14 \ --vnc \ --location http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/i386/os/

Starting install.../ / Retrieving file .treeinfo... | 2.4 kB 00:00 ... Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 7.1 MB 00:05 ... Retrieving file initrd.img... | 60 MB 00:45 ... ERROR internal error Process exited while reading console log output: libvir: error : cannot open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/physical_package_id: No such file or directory

Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running 'virsh start Fedora_14_i386'; otherwise, please restart your installation./

is the missing /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/physical_package_id caused by kernel configuration settings?

The relevant installed packages are:

libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686 python-virtinst-0.500.4-1.fc13.noarch python-virtinst-0.500.4-1.fc13.noarch virt-ctrl-1.0.1-4.fc12.i686 libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686 virt-mem-0.3.1-9.fc12.i686 libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686 virt-mem-0.3.1-9.fc12.i686 python-virtinst-0.500.4-1.fc13.noarch libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686 python-virtinst-0.500.4-1.fc13.noarch libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686 libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686 libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686 libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686 virt-manager-0.8.5-1.fc13.noarch virt-mem-0.3.1-9.fc12.i686 libvirt-client-0.8.2-2.fc13.i686 virt-mem-0.3.1-9.fc12.i686 libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686 libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686 libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686 virt-top-1.0.4-3.fc13.i686 virt-mem-0.3.1-9.fc12.i686 virt-viewer-0.2.1-1.fc13.i686 libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686 libvirt-client-0.8.2-2.fc13.i686

(CCing libvir-list) I would say that this is a bug in libvirt. Since you are using quite an old version, can you try upgrading to the new libvirt in Fedora 14/15 and see if that fixes it? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top