[et-mgmt-tools] virt-manger unable to create paravirtualized guest

Hugh Brock hbrock at redhat.com
Wed Feb 14 17:33:59 UTC 2007


Hugh Brock wrote:
> satyaakam goswami wrote:
>>> You'll need to install the whole python-virtinst package. Virt-manager
>>> calls modules in the underlying python-virtinst package that have had
>>> significant changes in the last month.
>> i picked up virtinst from there there are no install instructions in 
>> README
>> http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download/sources/virtinst/virtinst-0.100.0.tar.gz 
>>
>> how to i install the whole package.
>>
>> Satya
>> ps: do you guys hang around on freenode
> 
> Hi. Re freenode, normally not although I probably should drop in every 
> so often.
> 
> If you can't install the RPM, you'll need to put the virt-install script 
> in /usr/sbin as you did, and the rest of the python (everything under 
> the virtinst/ subdirectory) in your python library directory. For Fedora 
> that's generally /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/<package-name>... your 
> distro may vary of course. Most important thing is to replace the 
> existing virtinst code on your machine with the new stuff.
> 

Oh, and, you will also need to update libvirt to 0.1.11 or whatever the 
current release is.

--H

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