Ah I never gave KVM or virtualization a try in Gentoo. None of my servers have X though using X11 forwarding still works. In CentOS the package is xorg-x11-xauth , looks like it may be x11-apps/xauth in Gentoo.
No X anywhere in my environment <smile>. Somehow I normally manage!
Does "virsh iface-list" show tap5?
Actually that command errors out: /virsh # iface-list error: Failed to list active interfaces error: this function is not supported by the connection driver: virConnectNumOfInterfaces/
For the disk, this is what I have for my virtio disks...
<disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/> <source file='/vmstore/images/domain0001.qcow2'/> *<target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>* <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </disk>
My XML had the type wrong, setting it to raw. Alas, I still see the invoked KVM being passed: /-drive file=/kvms/test1.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,format=qcow2 / The "if=none" is the problem, it needs to be "if=virtio". KVM is also still being passed the "-S" flag as its first parameter, so the CPUs are not starting.
Also maybe add something like this to your virt-install line...
"--disk path=test1.img,device=disk,bus=virtio"
At this point, I'm just editing the XML, its easier. Once I get one working, I can tweak for the others. Virt-install at least got me started. Kevin