[et-mgmt-tools] Kernel / Hardware Acceleration Error

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:22:01AM -0300, Artur Baruchi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was using the virt-manager to install a Fully Virtualized System,
> and I checked the option "Enable kernel / hardware acceleration", but
> when Im at the end (when I click in Finish) appear the follow error:
> virDomainCreateLinux() failed internal error End-of-file while reading
> PTY startup output
> 
> Details:
> Unable to complete install 'libvirt.libvirtError
> virDomainCreateLinux() failed internal error End-of-file while reading
> PTY startup output
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line
> 677, in do_install
>    dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 647,
> in start_install
>    return self._do_install(consolecb, meter)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 664,
> in _do_install
>    self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 480, in 
>  createLinux
>    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed',
> conn=self)
> libvirtError: virDomainCreateLinux() failed internal error End-of-file
> while reading PTY startup output
> '
> 
> But when I dont check the option "Enable kernel / hardware
> acceleration", the installation goes normal.

Do you have the KVM userspace installed ? This is in the 'kvm' RPM
and provides the '/usr/bin/qemu-kvm' binary needed to do acceleration.

Regards,
Dan.
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