Xen users - Apr 2008 - error when creating hvm guest with virt-manager

I suppose I need to apply some patch but can''t find the right one.

Xen 3.2 (the packages from xen.org) on CentOS 5.1

I wanted to install my first hvm guest and wanted to use an old Suse 9.0 
(of course, there are reasons why I wanted to use that ;-).

First problem I encountered is that virt-manager blanked out the option to 
install from cdrom. I copied the first CD with dd to an iso image and used 
that as an install source. This gives me the following error:

The error is
"Unable to complete install ''libvirt.libvirtError
virDomainCreateLinux()
failed POST operation failed. (xend.err ''Error creating domain: long() 
argument must be a string or a number'')"

Google finds only this single article, but I don''t think I hit exactly
the
same problem:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.user/33078

The traceback I get does not touch XendDomainInfo.py, it starts in 
create.py. Anyway, I changed the code in XendDomainInfo.py and tried again 
with the same result. (I don''t have the complete traceback on hand, 
otherwise I would add it. If necessary I can get it again.)

Someone suggested using qemu to startup the installation. This worked, 
indeed, (with some twists) and I can now startup a xen hvm with the 
installed system on that disk image. So, it really looks like just some 
bug in the creation code of virt-manager.


Kai

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Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> 
> I suppose I need to apply some patch but can''t find the right one.
> 
> Xen 3.2 (the packages from xen.org) on CentOS 5.1
> 
> I wanted to install my first hvm guest and wanted to use an old Suse 9.0 
> (of course, there are reasons why I wanted to use that ;-).
> 
> First problem I encountered is that virt-manager blanked out the option to 
> install from cdrom. I copied the first CD with dd to an iso image and used 
> that as an install source. This gives me the following error:
> 
> The error is "Unable to complete install
''libvirt.libvirtError
> virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed. (xend.err
''Error creating
> domain: long() argument must be a string or a number'')"
> 
> Google finds only this single article, but I don''t think I hit
exactly the
> same problem: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.user/33078
> 
> The traceback I get does not touch XendDomainInfo.py, it starts in 
> create.py. Anyway, I changed the code in XendDomainInfo.py and tried again 
> with the same result. (I don''t have the complete traceback on
hand,
> otherwise I would add it. If necessary I can get it again.)
> 
> Someone suggested using qemu to startup the installation. This worked, 
> indeed, (with some twists) and I can now startup a xen hvm with the 
> installed system on that disk image. So, it really looks like just some 
> bug in the creation code of virt-manager.
The fix for this is in changeset 16764

I posted the patches and xen.spec file on centos-virt for this
and the HVM localtime problem. You should find them there.

-Ross

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Ross S. W. Walker wrote on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:07:09 -0400:
> I posted the patches and xen.spec file on centos-virt for this
> and the HVM localtime problem. You should find them there.
I remember, but I couldn''t find them with a search. When you posted
them I
didn''t grab them, because they were for hvm only and I didn''t
intend to
install an hvm guest in the near future ;-)

Kai

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