[fedora-virt] running Vista under KVM
Mark McLoughlin
markmc at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 09:34:32 UTC 2009
Hi Wayne,
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 18:19 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 09:52 -0800, Wayne Feick wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 07:55 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > > Hi Wayne,
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 06:32 +0000, Wayne Feick wrote:
> > > > I've been trying to experiment with running Vista under KVM today, but
> > > > I'm running into a cryptic error message that doesn't mean much to me:
> > > >
> > > > Unable to complete install '<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> internal error QEMU quit during console startup
> > > >
> > > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 723, in do_install
> > > > dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
> > > > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 732, in start_install
> > > > return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait)
> > > > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 767, in _do_install
> > > > self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
> > > > File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 915, in createLinux
> > > > if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
> > > > libvirtError: internal error QEMU quit during console startup
> > > >
> > > > '
> > >
> > > See this page:
> > >
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reporting_virtualization_bugs
> > >
> > > Is there anything interesting in the log in /var/log/libvirt/qemu?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks, Mark. I was looking in /var/log/messages, but hadn't
> > found /var/log/libvirt/qemu. Here's what it says:
> >
> > Supported machines are:
> > xenfv Xen Fully-virtualized PC (default)
> > xenpv Xen Para-virtualized PC
> >
> > I eventually figured out that some more services needed to be started,
> > but I wasn't entirely sure which. After a reboot, things seem to be
> > working.
> >
> > So the key point is that you can't just install the Fedora 11
> > virtualization group and go, you have to either reboot first, or figure
> > out which services need to be started.
>
> Interesting indeed. I haven't seen that in my own testing. Please file a
> bug against Fedora/libvirt in bugzilla.redhat.com.
Have you filed that bug? I can't seem to find it, but that's not unusual
with bugzilla :-)
Thanks,
Mark.
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