I am using SLES10 SP1 Beta2 and cannot run virt-manager. First, I
receive a bunch of messages like this one:
/opt/gnome/share/themes/Gilouche/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:243 Unable to locate
image file in pixmap_path: bg-prelight.png
Then when the virt-manager screen opens and I select local host, I get a
Virtual Machine Manager Connection Failure window which states:
Unable to open a connection to the xen hypervisor/daemon.
Verify that:
- A xen host kernel was booted
- The Xen service has beenstarted
I verified that I am booted in xen and xend has been started.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sue Krysan
Linux Systems Group
Unisys Corporation
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On 2/2/07, Krysan, Susan <KRYSANS@unisys.com> wrote:> I am using SLES10 SP1 Beta2 and cannot run virt-manager. First, I receive a > bunch of messages like this one: > [....]This is the Xen-Users list, not the virt-manager support list :) I don''t say that for sending you away, but you will get much better help asking a specific list. As far as I know, virt-manager is a quite fedora-specific tool, so it can become hard to get it running on other distributions. I think there are people working on ports for Debian, but I don''t thinlk you can just take the rpm, install it on SuSE, and expect it wo be working. The very least you need is not only install virt-manager, but also libvirt - do you have this? Henning _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 01:37:51PM +0100, Henning Sprang wrote:> On 2/2/07, Krysan, Susan <KRYSANS@unisys.com> wrote: > >I am using SLES10 SP1 Beta2 and cannot run virt-manager. First, I receive > >a > >bunch of messages like this one: > >[....] > > This is the Xen-Users list, not the virt-manager support list :)If anyone has virt-manager related question, please feel free to join the public ''et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com'' mailing list where all the virt-related management tools projects we''re involved in live. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools This is also linked off the website http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com> I don''t say that for sending you away, but you will get much better > help asking a specific list. As far as I know, virt-manager is a quite > fedora-specific tool, so it can become hard to get it running on other > distributions. I think there are people working on ports for Debian, > but I don''t thinlk you can just take the rpm, install it on SuSE, and > expect it wo be working.The only Fedora specific bit in virt-manager is the bit of the ''create new vm'' wizard for para-virt guests, in that it expects to fetch the file ''images/xen/vmlinuz'' off the HTTP site for the distro - other distros don''t lay stuff out in the same way so you won''t be able to install non-Fedora paravirt guests. Full virt guests should ''just work'', and it should still run on any Dom0 OS. I know people have used it on both Debian and Solaris without too much trouble. I''m adding support for installing SuSE paravirt guests, and think I might have figured out how to do Debian too.> The very least you need is not only install virt-manager, but also > libvirt - do you have this?Yep, wrt to the error message in the original thread, it probably means that XenD is not listening on the expected socket. Make sure you have (xend-unix-server yes)'' In the /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp file. As a good sanity check for correct XenD config, you can run ''virsh list'' from the command line. If that works, then virt-manager should also work. Also, virt-manager has a log file in $HOME/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log which may have more detailed diagnostics. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
first, sorry for my incorrect saying that virt.manager is very fedora specific, in the same mail I wrote that a Debian packaging (to install and run virt-manager on debian, not the installation part, no functionality is added when packaing stuff normally) is in works. On 2/3/07, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:> I''m adding support for > installing SuSE paravirt guests, and think I might have figured out how > to do Debian too.As said in other threads, the base installation of debian can easily done with debootstrap, for which an rpm package can easily generated with alien from the deb. It would need some rpm-savvy person to get a real rpm, but that should not be too hard. Xen-tools also works easily on Fedora. You could then simply call debootstrap from virt-manager I''d not recommend to run the debian installer in domU as you do it with anaconda and suse does with yast, but that''s maybe my personaly dislike against manual installers. While Anaconda and yast have some integrated automation capabilities, the d-i automation is limited to debconf stuff. For full automation of every aspect of a Debian install, you''d talke FAI (vor real and virtual systems, including chroots) or xen-tools (gues what it''s for :) ). Please contact me if you need any help with this. I only still have a problem with getting the debian system run correctly as domU with the fedora kernels, some console problem, but a colleague has a workaround, which I will test these days. I can give you information on what''s wrong, and how we work around it - probably you''ll have some better ideas on this. Henning _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users