Re: [libvirt-users] Virtualizing a an old SuSE system

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 05:41:49PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/27/2012 05:15 PM, Dale Amon wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:14:41AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >>> On 02/25/2012 07:42 PM, Dale Amon wrote: >>>> I'm in the midst of an attempt to convert an >>>> old and rather large SuSE server (5 disks) into >>>> a virsh loadable VM. Has anyone else dealt with >>>> the issues of systems of this sort? I'm at the >>>> moment trying to hand construct a machine xml >>>> file for it. I managed to create one which would >>>> load but not start. >>> >>> Personally, rather than trying to hand-create XML, I've found it handy >>> to use virt-manager's ability to create a new machine XML description >>> around existing disk images. That is, use virt-manager to create a new >>> VM, but instead of telling it to install the new machine from scratch, >>> you instead tell it to attach to the pre-existing storage of the >>> eventual guest, and the OS that is installed in that storage, and it >>> generates pretty good defaults for the XML that will then boot that guest. >> >> Hmmm... this is a very remote (from me) virtual host server. >> I can get a remote xterm but it throws a fit when I try to >> run virt-manager as root over ssh. >> >> ERROR:root:Unable to initialize GTK: could not open display >> >> Suggestions? > > Run virt-manager locally, and tell the local virt-manager to connect to > the remote qemu+ssh://root@remote/system, rather than trying to run a > remote X virt-manager. (Same goes for things like 'virsh -c > qemu+ssh://remote/system' rather than ssh to remote before doing 'virsh > -c qemu:///system') virt-manager --connect qemu+ssh://root@myhost.domain.net