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

Tue Jul 27 21:47:39 UTC 2010
Kenni Lund <kenni at kelu.dk>

2010/7/27 cris rock <queneroviejo at hotmail.com>:
>
> 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

I haven't used CentOS as a KVM host yet, only Fedora, but your setup
still puzzles me...why do you have a brand new qemu-package (as in
"not from the CentOS/RHEL repositories") installed? I would guess that
this package would conflict with the kvm package and mess things up.

Your error message mentions /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 as the
executable. If you run
rpm -qf /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
does it then tell you that this file belong to the qemu package? If
so, I believe this is your problem...you try to use qemu, which has
partial KVM support, instead of using qemu-kvm (which is the "real"
KVM userspace executable that originates from the kvm package). I
don't think the arguments supported by qemu-system-x86_64 and qemu-kvm
are the same, which probably could be the cause of the client not
booting and libvirt/virt-manager failing.

Best Regards
Kenni