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