Hello. When I creating virtual Mashines with virt-install (Version 0.500.3-1) with following options: # virt-install --serial pty --hvm --virt-type kvm -l http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/ -x console=ttyS0,9600 -w bridge=virt0,mac=52:54:00:12:34:29,model=virtio -k=de --nographics --prompt --disk=test.img,bus=virtio I get the following error messages: Creating domain... 0 B 00:00 error: Unable to get domain status error: operation failed: could not query memory balloon allocation Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running 'virsh start test'; otherwise, please restart your installation. I have 4 gb Ram and 2 gb free. I am using libvirt-bin 0.8.1-2 and run all Commands as root. Can anywhere help? Best regards Sebastian -- Sebastian Andres mail: <sebastian(a)sebastianandres.de&gt; Olbersstr. 33, 10589 Berlin google maps: http://tinyurl.com/6z3f3 home:+49-30-3010.7852 www: http://www.sebastianandres.de cell:+49-170-3224.773 pgp: http://www.sebastianandres.de/key.txt