[fedora-virt] Trouble with virt-install using F-12 and virt-preview repository

[James Laska]

On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 10:37 -0500, James Laska wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm running into some difficulty creating virt guests using virt-install
> from the F-12 fedora-virt repository [1].  It seems every attempt to
> create a guest results in the following failure (complete log available
> at http://pastie.org/811118).
> 
>         # virt-install --name RATS --ram 768 --vcpus 1 --os-type linux
>         --os-variant fedora13  --extra-args  "vnc serial console=ttyS0
>         ksdevice=link ip=dhcp lang=en keymap=us
>         stage2=http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/rawhide-testing/i386/os/images/install.img repo=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os" --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/RATS.img,size=8,sparse=false,bus=scsi --network network=default --accelerate --nographics --location http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/rawhide-testing/i386/os 
>         
>         Starting install...
>         Retrieving file .treeinfo...                                                                                                          | 2.8 kB     00:00 ... 
>         Retrieving file vmlinuz...                                                                                                            | 7.1 MB     00:02 ... 
>         Retrieving file initrd.img...                                                                                                         |  57 MB     00:08 ... 
>         ERROR    internal error unable to start guest: char device redirected to /dev/pts/5
>         Warning: vlan 0 with no nics
>         qemu: could not load kernel '/var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-vmlinuz.V7r0mj': Permission denied
> 
> The traceback seems similar to an already resolved issue in bugzilla
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537221#c1).  Should I
> reopen the reported issue, or does this look like something now?
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository

Filed as Bug 566425 - qemu: could not load kernel
'/var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-vmlinuz.bmav1g': Permission denied

Thanks,
James
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