[CentOS-virt] Virt-install Error on Centos 5.4 64bit and kvm

Wed Jul 28 08:21:32 UTC 2010
Momonth <momonth at gmail.com>

Hi,

Here are the packages I have at the moment, which are proven to work for me:

kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5
kvm-83-164.el5
kmod-kvm-83-164.el5
etherboot-roms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5.centos
etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5.centos

Cheers,
Vladimir

2010/7/27 cris rock <queneroviejo at hotmail.com>:
> Hi guys, I hope you can help me on this issue with kvm/libvirt:
>
> using this command to install a kvm virtual machine:
>
> virt-install --connect qemu:///system \
> --name p3k0401 \
> --ram 2048 \
> --file //dev/VolGroup01/p3k0401logvol \
> --accelerate \
> -s 10 \
> --nographics \
> --hvm \
> --location='http://10.1.4.80'
>
> I get:
>
> Starting install...
> Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 1.8 MB 00:00
> Retrieving file initrd.img... | 7.1 MB 00:00
> ERROR internal error Domain p3k0401 didn't show up
>
> Domain installation may not have been
> successful. If it was, you can restart your domain
> by running 'virsh start p3k0401'; otherwise, please
> restart your installation.
> ERROR internal error Domain p3k0401 didn't show up
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 889, in ?
> main()
> File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 751, in main
> start_time, guest.start_install)
> File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 813, in do_install
> dom = install_func(conscb, progresscb, wait=(not wait))
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 541, in
> start_install
> return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 633, in
> _do_install
> self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 974, in
> createLinux
> if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed',
> conn=self)
> libvirtError: internal error Domain p3k0401 didn't show up
>
>
> On the /var/log/libvirt/qemu/p3k0401.log:
>
> LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin HOME=/
> /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -S -M rhel5.4.0 -m 1024 -smp 1 -name p3k0401
> -uuid 7658c102-0738-724c-40eb-e1c58b2c2369 -domid 3 -nographic -monitor
> pty -pidfile /var/run/libvirt/qemu//p3k0401.pid -no-reboot -boot c
> -kernel /var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-vmlinuz.O_SOVo -initrd
> /var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-initrd.img.0ba0Fp -append
> method=http://10.1.4.80  -drive
> file=//dev/VolGroup01/p3k0401logvol,if=ide,index=0,cache=none -net
> nic,macaddr=54:52:00:15:c4:50,vlan=0 -net
> tap,fd=16,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 -serial pty -parallel none -usb
> Supported machines are:
> pc Standard PC (alias of pc-0.12)
> pc-0.12 Standard PC (default)
> pc-0.11 Standard PC, qemu 0.11
> pc-0.10 Standard PC, qemu 0.10
> isapc ISA-only PC
> xenpv Xen Para-virtualized PC
>
>
> And my packages installed:
>
> # rpm -qa | grep qemu
> qemu-0.12.4-1.el5.rf
>
> # rpm -qa | grep kvm
> etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5.centos
> kmod-kvm-83-164.el5_5.12
> kvm-83-164.el5_5.12
>
> # rpm -qa | grep libvirt
> libvirt-0.6.3-33.el5_5.1
> libvirt-0.6.3-33.el5_5.1
> libvirt-python-0.6.3-33.el5_5.1
>
> # uname -a
> Linux gs1p304 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Please any pointer is appreciated...
>
> thanks!
>
> cris
>
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