[libvirt-users] Error installing VM: "Process exited while reading console log output"

Hi, I'm trying to install a qemu-kvm virtual machine on a Debian GNU/Linux squeeze amd64 host, using virtinst 0.500.3 and libvirt 0.8.3. First I tried this command as a normal user (in groups kvm and libvirt): $ virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name test1 \ This failed, giving me the following output: Starting install... Retrieving file MANIFEST... | 3.3 kB 00:00 ... Retrieving file linux... | 4.6 MB 00:13 ... Retrieving file initrd.gz... | 13 MB 00:38 ... ERROR internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/4 Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running 'virsh start test1'; otherwise, please restart your installation. ERROR internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/4 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 1033, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 915, in main start_time, guest.start_install) File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 957, in do_install dom = install_func(conscb, progresscb, wait=(not wait)) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/virtinst/Guest.py", line 973, in start_install return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1038, in _do_install "install") File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1009, in _create_guest dom = self.conn.createLinux(start_xml, 0) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 1277, in createLinux if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self) libvirtError: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/4 I tried the same virt-install command without "--serial pty" and as root, to no avail. I then tried setting "console" using --extra-args, i.e.: $ virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name test1 \ Again, I get the same error. Can anyone tell me why I'm getting this error or give me some hints to troubleshoot this? So far nothing in the Python or C code of libvirt stands out at me, and nothing in ~/.virtinst/virt-install.log looks helpful. Since there's no specific error message to say why the process exited, does this perhaps mean that debian-installer is simply shutting down immediately after booting? (I'm sending this to the libvirt-users list because it looks like a libvirt issue. Let me know if I should query a different list.) Thanks, -- Patrick "P. J." McDermott http://www.pehjota.net/ http://www.pehjota.net/contact.html