Re: [Fedora-xen] Problem about creating virtual machine in FC6
Sadique Puthen wrote:
taoj2(a)cs.rpi.edu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed FC6 and I was trying to create a new virtual machine with the
> virtual machine manager. I selected to use FC6 again as the guesting
> OS of
> the new virtual machine.
>
> Everytime after I finishing install of the guest OS, It gave me a prompt
> to reboot the guest system. But After I click the "reboot" button, the
> vitual machine gone. It's weird. I think the reboot shouldn't make the
> guest OS crash.
>
> I use the /var/lib/xen/images/box1 as the storage space of the guest
> OS. I
> found that the file box1 is still there. So I was trying to use the
> "restore saved machine" of virtual machine manager to reload it, However
> it said that "Error restoring domain '/var/lib/xen/images/box1'. Is the
> domain already running?"
>
"restore saved machine" is to restore machine which is saved using
Virtual Machine -> save, not to start vms which are shut down.
As of now, virt-manager is only capable of managing active/running vms.
Managing inactive domains using virt-manager is something for future...
You sould use "xm crate <config file name>" to boot a machine.
s=crate=create=
> SO I use the "xm list" to show all domains, only
domain0 is there.
Read the documentation, the explanation's there.
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