[fedora-virt] Problem porting winxp vm from F12 to rh el 5.4

[Gianluca Cecchi]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Justin M. Forbes <jmforbes at linuxtx.org>wrote:

> There is a bug dealing with this
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473154
> The fix for Fedora 12 is currently in updates-testing.  In the meantime,
> you can either keep any CD in the drive, or remove the CDROM from the
> virtual machine config.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
>
It seems not realted to my case.
I get no errors: only black screen with "Booting from Hard Disk...." and the
_ prompt at the right of the screen without doing anything.
My cdrom was an iso file, not a relad physicaldevice of the host.
I tried to shutdown the vm, remove the cd and set boot from hd and I
continue getting this problem.....
Also, sometimes in rh el 5.4 as soon as I shut down the windows vm I
created, it disappears, from both virt-manager window and from the output of
"virsh list --all". The only way to have it back is run again the "virsh
create file.xml" command.
I see this in ~root/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log when I shutdown vm and
get it disappeared:

[Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:18:42 virt-manager 15761] DEBUG (details:1112) VNC
disconnected
[Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:18:42 virt-manager 15761] WARNING (details:1138)
Retrying connection in 125 ms
[Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:18:42 virt-manager 15761] DEBUG (details:1148) Got
timed re
try
[Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:18:42 virt-manager 15761] DEBUG (details:1204) Trying
console login
[Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:18:42 virt-manager 15761] ERROR (virt-manager:156)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 1149, in
retry_login
    self.try_login()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 1205, in
try_login
    protocol, host, port, trans, username = self.vm.get_graphics_console()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 674, in
get_graphics_console
    self.update_xml()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 97, in
update_xml
    self._xml = self.vm.XMLDesc(flags)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 231, in XMLDesc
    if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virDomainGetXMLDesc() failed',
dom=self)
libvirtError: Domain not found: no domain with matching uuid
'90b50aad-87c4-0329-309a-1d9a1ca12391'
None
[Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:18:42 virt-manager 15761] DEBUG (engine:324) window
counter decremented to 1

It doesn't happen each time, but very often..
Is this another bug I went through? Is it related with the virsh create
command itself or the guest type itself?
The uid inside the "domain not found" line above was the one I had
previously in F12 host and that I kept unchanged in the xml file I used to
create the new domain.....

Latest lines in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/winxp.log don't seem interesting:

LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin HOME=/ /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S
-M pc -cpu qemu32 -m 1024 -smp 2 -name winxp -uuid
90b50aad-87c4-0329-309a-1d9a1ca12391 -no-kvm-pit-reinjection -monitor pty
-pidfile /var/run/libvirt/qemu//winxp.pid -localtime -boot d -drive
file=/VMDATA/winxp_maggi.img,if=ide,index=0,format=qcow2 -drive
file=/databases/Windows_XP_Professional_32BIT_English_with_SP3.ISO,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2
-net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:84:ee:5a,vlan=0 -net
tap,fd=38,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet11 -serial pty -parallel none -usb
-usbdevice tablet -vnc 127.0.0.1:9 -k en-us -soundhw ac97
char device redirected to /dev/pts/19
char device redirected to /dev/pts/20
interface_audio_init:
line_in_init:
line_out_init: freq 44100 channels 2 format AUD_FMT_S16 HOST_ENDIANNESS
interface_audio_fini:

Thanks,
Gianluca
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