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Hi, Virt-install is not working when I try to provision a vm today. Err is: -- Starting install... Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 1.9 MB 00:00 Retrieving file initrd.img... | 7.1 MB 00:00 Creating storage file... | 110 GB 00:00 ERROR POST operation failed:

Hi. This is not a question, I had the following problem and I want to share my solution. ------- I tried to create a new virtual machine with this command: $ virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n vmTeste -r 512 -f /var/lib/libvirt/images/vmTeste.qcow2 -s 2 -c /media/Data/isos/debian-506-amd64-netinst.iso --vnc --noautoconsole --accelerate --hvm And I got this error: ERROR Unable to

Hi, I am having problems creating VMs in virt-manager. I have played with different xen hypervisor versions 3.0 & 3.4 (with rpm -i --force) but have in principle gone back to the originals. - Though I cannot absolutely exclude that something has gone wrong. In principle I am using rhel 5.4 with the gitco xen 3.4 hypervisor. Can anybody put me on the right track with the attached error

hi guys My OS is centos 5.4 uname -a : Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-prep #1 SMP Mon Jul 12 20:03:46 CST 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux and my xen version is 3.3.1, I install xen from souce code. The xen dom0 and xend is ok but I can''t use virt-install to install a domU. The error is below:

I''m unable to create a centos domU on Opensolaris 2009.6. I had no problem following the instructions to make Solaris a dom0. The same process worked just fine with the GUI virtual machine manager under OpenSUSE 11.1. For a number of reasons I''d prefer to use Opensolaris as my Dom0, but not if it going to be a battle to get everything to work. Is Xen actually a

Hi guys, I posted this question at virt list on Fedora Project but I guess its a best place to ask help for my problem. I'm trying to set up two kvm/libvirt hosts, I installed the set of packages contained in @kvm and @clustering groups, downloaded and installed glusterfs version 3.1.2, configured the cluster ( all working ), configured the gluster volume and mounted it on

Hi everyone, This is my first attempt at a PV guest install from scratch and I''m a tad confused. Have I answered one of the questions virsh-install asks wrongly? Does anyone know of a general guide for installing PV guests with virsh-install? (Most Centos docs seem to use the GUI based virt-manager and I only have command line access). Am I meant to make use of the files here:

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 \ > --ram $((128 * 1024 * 1024)) --vcpus=1 --description 'Test VM 1' \ >

Here's the procedure: # qemu-img -f qcow2 /vm/win2k3.img 8G # virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n win2k3 -r 512 --vcpus=1 -c /home/temp/win2003sp2ins.iso -f /vm/win2k3.img -s 4 --network=bridge:br0 --mac=00:ff:ff:ff:58:58 --noautoconsole --vnc --os-type=windows --os-variant=win2k3 --hvm --accelerate And I get error as below: Starting install... internal error unable to start guest: qemu:

Hi, I try to start Solaris10 HVM DomU on SNV_93 dom0 running amd athlon x2 and 8gb ram. When I try to create a domU i get: bash-3.2# virt-install -n sol10 --hvm -r 1024 --vnc -f /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/sol10 -c /rpool/pub/sol-10-u5-ga-x86-dvd.iso Starting install... virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: (xend.err ''Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Backend device not

Hi guys, I hope you can help me on this issue with kvm/libvirt: using this command to install a kvm virtual machine: virt-install --connect qemu:///system \ --name p3k0401 \ --ram 2048 \ --file //dev/VolGroup01/p3k0401logvol \ --accelerate \ -s 10 \ --nographics \ --hvm \ --location='http://10.1.4.80' I get: Starting install... Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 1.8 MB 00:00

i'm having difficulty running KVM virtual machines off of a glusterFS volume mounted using the glusterFS client. i am running centOS 6, 64-bit. i am using virt-install to create my images but encountering the following error: qemu: could not open disk image /mnt/myreplicatestvolume/testvm.img: Invalid argument (see below for a more lengthy version of the error) i have found an example of

I am trying to create a DomU guest domain to run snv77 over an a snv77 host, following the instructions and example in http://opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/docs/virt-install.html. I booted the xVM partition (selected xVM from the grub menu). virt-install spends 2 or 3 minutes after "Starting install ..." then fails. here''s what I get: bash-3.2# virt-install --name

Hi All, Im getting the following error when I run virt-install: bash-3.2# virt-install -n winxp-01 --hvm -r 384 --vnc -f /etc/opt/vms/winxp-01.img -s 16 -c /etc/opt/images/windowsXP_SP2.iso Starting install... libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err ''Error creating domain: vncpasswd is not set up in VMconfig and xend-config.'') Traceback (most recent call

Hello We use the default centos5 xen package We''d like to create a centos4.5 guest As we don''t have the CD we ask for an http install Here is how we launched virt-install and the error it returned ------------------ # virt-install Would you like a fully virtualized guest (yes or no)? This will allow you to run unmodified operating systems. no What is the name of your

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me with this, I have been trying to get a vm up and running for a while now and cant for the life of me work out why it isnt working. The errors I get arnt very helpful and im at a loss as how to debug this any further. Here is the command and output that I get...(Also nothing shows up with virsh list --all after so its starting to install then dropping out) Hope

Hi, I have been trying to get Xen 3.1 running on Fedora 7 since yesterday and no luck. At the beginning I thought it was a problem with teh installation of Fedora 7 so I reinstalled it. Still, I have the same problem. I have never had this problem with Xen (FC5,FC6). The xend.log (below) includes a line "VmError: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working."

Hello all, I have a new Sun fire X4140 server with two amd opteron 2435 CPUs running debian jessie, libvirt 1.2.9-3, virtinst 1.0.1-3, qemu/kvm 2.1. When attempting to create virtual machines (with --debug), I receive this: [Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:56:36 virt-install 1842] DEBUG (cli:234) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-install", line 876, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File

Hi, I am trying to install CentOS on an Opensolaris Dom0. virt-install fails with an error in virDomainCreateLinux(). Is this a known issue? Am I missing some step? manoj@mowgli:~$ uname -a SunOS mowgli 5.11 snv_101b i86pc i386 i86xpv Solaris manoj@mowgli:~$ pfexec virt-install What is the name of your virtual machine? centos How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 512 What would

Hi,    I''ve been using xVM with no problems since 2009.06 release (centos4/5, rhel4/5, sol10 as guests). This was using the 111a version. Just installed a new server with the 111b version and .... virt-install --nographics -p -r 8192 -n CentOS_48_64_92 -f /dev/zvol/dsk/zm0/vm/CentOS_48_64_92 -l ftp://192.168.101.120/pub/CentOS-48 -w bridge=aggr0 --os-type=linux --os-variant=rhel4