[fedora-virt] Re: [Fedora-xen] Setting up libvirt to work with Xen 3.4.1 on F11

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Wed Aug 19 20:31:56 UTC 2009


On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:04:50PM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
> Yes. it works with Xen-tools.
> 
> http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/setup-fedora-11-pv-domu-at-xen-3-4-1-dom0-kernel-2-6-30-rc6-tip-on-top-of-fedora-11/
> 

Just to be sure: You are able to install _HVM_ guests using Xen tools?

-- Pasi


> Boris.
> 
> --- On Wed, 8/19/09, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Setting up libvirt to work with Xen 3.4.1 on F11
> To: "Boris Derzhavets" <bderzhavets at yahoo.com>
> Cc: fedora-xen at redhat.com, fedora-virt at redhat.com
> Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 2:04 PM
> 
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:49:49AM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
> > My primary concern is creating HVM guest via virt-manager at Xen 3.4.1 Dom0 on F11.
> > 
> > Boris.
> > P.S.
> > Personally, i don't need libvirt at all to create PV and HVM DomUs at any Xen Dom0.
> > It's client's requirement.
> > 
> 
> Yeah I just wanted to know if it worked with Xen tools. That would tell
> us if this is purely a libvirt problem, or problem with something else.
> 
> -- Pasi
> 
> > --- On Wed, 8/19/09, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:
> > 
> > From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>
> > Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Setting up libvirt to work with Xen 3.4.1 on F11
> > To: "Boris Derzhavets" <bderzhavets at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: fedora-xen at redhat.com, fedora-virt at redhat.com
> > Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 1:41 PM
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:20:28AM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
> > > xen 3.4.1-1 src.rpm downloaded from
> > >  http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/xen/3.4.1/1.fc12/
> > >  rebuilt that for F11 and installed.
> > > 
> > > libvirt src.rpm downloaded from
> > >    ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/11/SRPMS/libvirt-0.6.2-14.fc11.src.rpm
> > > and installed  : "rpm -i libvirt-0.6.2-14.fc11.src.rpm"
> > > 
> > > Rebuilt libvirt packages applying patch :-
> > > 
> > >  http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blobdiff;f=src/xend_internal.c;h=55ffd3f9a5004e681c8ffb2279d27965eb42e956;hp=b211bb6293355bf68e33f56f947021bd7bb8e675;hb=14435163a086c0bcdff04308077fa46a5fa08bb0;hpb=fd90b67afe59265327dde7e447ea847687bd4e8d
> > > 
> > > Installed libvirt :-
> > > yum install libvirt-0.6.2-14.fc11.x86_64.rpm \
> > > libvirt-debuginfo-0.6.2-14.fc11.x86_64.rpm \
> > > libvirt-devel-0.6.2-14.fc11.x86_64.rpm \
> > > libvirt-python-0.6.2-14.fc11.x86_64.rpm \
> > > virt-manager virt-viewer
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Attempt to create any HVM via virt-manager aborts with message:-
> > >  
> > >  Unable to complete install '<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByName
> > >  Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1501, in do_install
> > >      dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
> > >    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 541, in start_install
> > >      return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait)
> > >    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 633, in _do_install
> > >      self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
> > >    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 974, in createLinux
> > >      if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
> > >  libvirtError: Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByName
> > > 
> > 
> > Looks like something wrong/missing in libvirt..
> > 
> > Did you try with the default Xen 3.3.1 version, that is included in F11? 
> > Maybe something was changed in Xen 3.4 and it causes that problem.
> > 
> > Also, can you create HVM guests using just the Xen tools, not virt* stuff?
> > 
> > -- Pasi
> > 
> > > PV DomUs for F11 and CentOS 5.3 created and tested OK.
> > > 
> > > Boris.
> > > 
> > > 
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