<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#111111;"><div>Hi<br>I am trying to create a virtual machine and install Windows XP. I am using Fedora 11.The system was last fully patched about an hour ago.<br><br>selinux is disabled.<br><br>root@pc32 ~]# uname -a<br>Linux x.com 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 17:16:21 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux<br><br>When booting the virtual machine for the first time, the VM hangs with: "Booting from hard disk". Nothing else appears.<br><br>When I shutdown the VM /var/log/messages has:<br>Sep 2 03:42:44 pc32 libvirtd: 03:42:44.714: error : operation failed: could not query memory balloon allocation<br><br>... and a dialogue box appears with the same message: here is the trace:<br>Traceback (most recent call last):<br> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 507, in shutdown_domain vm.shutdown()<br> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 566, in shutdown self._update_status()<br> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 217, in _update_status info = self.vm.info()<br> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 523, in info<br> if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virDomainGetInfo() failed', dom=self)<br>libvirtError: operation failed: could not query memory balloon allocation<br><br>Thanks,<br>James Harrison<br><span class="cgSelectable"></span></div></div><br> </body></html>