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Hi all.<br>
<br>
I've been playing around with KVM for a bit now and have several
virtual machines up and running. Having passed what I considered
"first look" stage, I'm ready to start using libvirt as a manager.
For reference, pre-libvirt, I have started this VM with:<br>
<br>
<i>kvm -net nic,model=virtio -net tap,ifname=tap5,script=no -drive
file=test1.img,if=virtio,boot=on -curses -no-reboot -m 1g -smp 2</i><br>
<br>
I have a test environment I like to play with, and created the
initial domain XML using virt-install:<br>
<br>
<i>virt-install --name "Test" --ram 1024 --vcpus=2 --cpu host
--description "Test VM" --import --file test1.img --os-type=linux
--os-variant=virtio26 --network bridge=br0,model=virtio
--graphics=none --autostart --prompt</i><br>
<br>
When I look in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/Test.log I see the VM is
started with the command (edited down to the relevant parts):<br>
<br>
<i>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -m 1024 -smp 2 -name Test,process=qemu:Test
-nographics -boot c -drive file=/kvms/test1.img,if=none,boot=on<br>
<br>
</i>This has two problems:<br>
<br>
1) The "-S" is keeping the system from booting<br>
2) the "if=none" needs to be "if=virtio"<br>
<br>
I've confirmed both by changing -nographics to -curses and watching
what happens. For #1, its a big fat nothing (no surprise since -S
turns off the CPUs), for #2 grub loads and the kernel boots, but my
/dev/vda3 isn't found so "init" can't start.<br>
<br>
I'm anticipating a 3rd problem: I don't see where to specify that I
want the VM to use "tap5" of my bridged network.<br>
<br>
Can some kind soul please let me know what I need to change in the
domain XML file to fix these issues?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Kevin<br>
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ps. I've post this to my blog at <span id="sample-permalink"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.kevinsthoughts.com/2011/08/">http://www.kevinsthoughts.com/2011/08/</a><span
id="editable-post-name" title="Click to edit this part of the
permalink">kvm-management-libvirt</span>/ if anyone would prefer
to answer there.</span><br>
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