Creating a Windws XP virtual machine Fedora 11

[James Harrison]

Hi
I am trying to create a virtual machine and install Windows XP. I am using Fedora 11.The system was last fully patched about an hour ago.

selinux is disabled.

root@pc32 ~]# uname -a
Linux x.com 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 17:16:21 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

When booting the virtual machine for the first time, the VM hangs with: "Booting from hard disk". Nothing else appears.

When I shutdown the VM /var/log/messages has:
Sep  2 03:42:44 pc32 libvirtd: 03:42:44.714: error : operation failed: could not query memory balloon allocation

... and a dialogue box appears with the same message: here is the trace:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 507, in shutdown_domain vm.shutdown()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 566, in shutdown self._update_status()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 217, in _update_status info = self.vm.info()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 523, in info
    if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virDomainGetInfo() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: operation failed: could not query memory balloon allocation

Thanks,
James Harrison

[Frank Murphy]

On 02/09/09 08:56, James Harrison wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to create a virtual machine and install Windows XP. I am
> using Fedora 11.The system was last fully patched about an hour ago.
>
> selinux is disabled.

You best bet is the virt-list:
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt

[Bill Davidsen]

James Harrison wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to create a virtual machine and install Windows XP. I am 
> using Fedora 11.The system was last fully patched about an hour ago.
>
> selinux is disabled.

I suspect from your output that you are using virt-manager. You might try just 
doing the creation from command line and see if creating the image and running 
kvm from cli works. That will help localize the part not working.

I have no problems running that way.
> root@pc32 ~]# uname -a
> Linux x.com 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 17:16:21 
> EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> When booting the virtual machine for the first time, the VM hangs with: 
> "Booting from hard disk". Nothing else appears.
>
> When I shutdown the VM /var/log/messages has:
> Sep  2 03:42:44 pc32 libvirtd: 03:42:44.714: error : operation failed: 
> could not query memory balloon allocation
>
> ... and a d ialogue box appears with the same message: here is the trace:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 507, in 
> shutdown_domain vm.shutdown()
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 566, in 
> shutdown self._update_status()
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 217, in 
> _update_status info = self.vm.info()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 523, in info
>     if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virDomainGetInfo() failed', 
> dom=self)
> libvirtError: operation failed: could not query memory balloon allocation
>
> Thanks,
> James Harrison

[Stewart Williams]

James Harrison wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to create a virtual machine and install Windows XP. I am
> using Fedora 11.The system was last fully patched about an hour ago.
>
> selinux is disabled.
>
> root@pc32 ~]# uname -a
> Linux x.com 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 17:16:21
> EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> When booting the virtual machine for the first time, the VM hangs with:
> "Booting from hard disk". Nothing else appears.
>
> When I shutdown the VM /var/log/messages has:
> Sep  2 03:42:44 pc32 libvirtd: 03:42:44.714: error : operation failed:
> could not query memory balloon allocation
>
> ... and a dialogue box appears with the same message: here is the trace:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 507, in
> shutdown_domain vm.shutdown()
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 566, in
> shutdown self._update_status()
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 217, in
> _update_status info = self.vm.info()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 523, in info
>     if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virDomainGetInfo() failed',
> dom=self)
> libvirtError: operation failed: could not query memory balloon allocation
>
> Thanks,
> James Harrison

Could be related to this bug?:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500968