[fedora-virt] sudo virt-install VNC: Unable to read from monitor

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 01:42:17PM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Fedora 16 and would like to install a KVM VM.
> 
> On my preious Ubuntu system I used to install such a VM with:
> $ sudo  virt-install [...] --vnc [...]
> 
> (I'm a sudo fan, not guru)
> 
> On my F16, running the same command gives me:
>   Starting install...
>   ERROR    Unable to read from monitor: Connection reset by peer
>   Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
> This, IMHO, is due to the --vnc option trying to open a X11 window.

I don't think so - this error message means that QEMU failed to
startup. virt-install won't even have go as far as running
virt-viewer, so VNC/X11 won't come into it there. Check the
/var/log/libvirt/qemu/$GUEST.log file for more info about
what happened to QEMU.


Daniel
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