[Fedora-xen] Re: [fedora-virt] virt-install (and virt-manager) unsupported virtualization type 'xen' with pv_ops dom0 on Fedora 10

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Sat Mar 7 19:37:25 UTC 2009


On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 02:28:52PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 08:50:36PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >> On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 01:45:11PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> >>> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >>>> [root at dom0test ~]# virt-install --connect xen:/// -n vm01 -r 512 --vcpus=1 -f /dev/vg00/vm01 --vnc -p -l
> >>>> "ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/os"
> >>>>
> >>>> ERROR    Unsupported virtualization type 'xen'
> >>>>
> >>>> Hmm.. so that didn't help unfortunately.. Other ideas? 
> >>>>
> >>> Ah okay. Libvirt capabilities must be getting confused. Can you attach
> >>> the output of
> >>>
> >>> virsh --connect xen:/// capabilities
> >>> cat /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities
> >>>
> >> [root at dom0test ~]# virsh --connect xen:/// capabilities
> >> <capabilities>
> >>
> >>   <host>
> >>     <cpu>
> >>       <arch>i686</arch>
> >>       <features>
> >>         <pae/>
> >>       </features>
> >>     </cpu>
> >>     <migration_features>
> >>       <live/>
> >>       <uri_transports>
> >>         <uri_transport>xenmigr</uri_transport>
> >>       </uri_transports>
> >>     </migration_features>
> >>     <topology>
> >>       <cells num='1'>
> >>         <cell id='0'>
> >>           <cpus num='2'>
> >>             <cpu id='0'/>
> >>             <cpu id='1'/>
> >>           </cpus>
> >>         </cell>
> >>       </cells>
> >>     </topology>
> >>   </host>
> >>
> >> </capabilities>
> >>
> >> [root at dom0test ~]# cat /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities
> >> cat: /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities: No such file or directory
> >>
> > 
> > [root at dom0test ~]# ls -la /sys/hypervisor
> > ls: cannot access /sys/hypervisor: No such file or directory
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hmm, well that will do it. Libvirt capabilities are what tell user apps
> what types of domains can be installed, and generating xen capabilities
> is largely dependent on the above paths. Not too sure what to do from here.
> 

Ok.

I'll try asking what's the thing with that.. if it's still missing, or is it
deprecated or something..

-- Pasi




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