Xenguest-install.py doesnt seem to work

[J.L. Coenders]

Hi all,

I am trying to install a FC6 guest from the DVD on a FC5 xen system. Xen runs 
(xm list show the dom-0), and I am trying to install with 
xenguest-install.py, but it gives the error below. Any ideas? I cannot find 
anything usefull anywhere. I am searching and trying for days now.

Regards,
Jeroen

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What is the name of your virtual machine? fc6
 How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 512
 What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /home/vms/fc6
 How large would you like the disk to be (in gigabytes)? 6
 What is the install location? ftp://localhost/pub


Starting install...
libvir: error : operation virDomainCreateLinux forbidden for read only access
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py", line 460, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py", line 451, in main
    start_paravirt_install(name, ram, disk, mac, uuid, src, options.extra)
  File "/usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py", line 331, in start_paravirt_install
    dom = conn.createLinux(cfgxml, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 249, in createLinux
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: virDomainCreateLinux() faile

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 07:52:07PM +0200, J.L. Coenders wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  
>  I am trying to install a FC6 guest from the DVD on a FC5 xen system. Xen runs 
>  (xm list show the dom-0), and I am trying to install with 
>  xenguest-install.py, but it gives the error below. Any ideas? I cannot find 
>  anything usefull anywhere. I am searching and trying for days now. 
Yep, that's a bug in xenguest-install.py using a read only connection to
libvirt. It'll need to be fixed in a xen RPM errata - since I have one
scheduled very soon, it should easy to slip this in too. In the meanwhile
just edit the xenguest-install.py script and at line 324 change

    conn = libvirt.openReadOnly(None)

To

    conn = libvirt.open(None)

Regards,
Dan.
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