[et-mgmt-tools] virt-manager errors
Hugh Brock
hbrock at redhat.com
Tue May 15 12:50:03 UTC 2007
satyaakam goswami wrote:
> Configuration is as follows
>
> Hardware Sun X2200
> Xen-unstable
> virt-manager : 0.4.0
>
> I am able to successfully run RHEL 3.0 update 5 as DomU in fully
> virtualized mode when i try creating a VM using virt-manager in
> paravirtualized mode i get the following errors
>
> Unable to complete install 'exceptions.OSError [Errno 2] No such file
> or directory: '/var/lib/xen/virtinstmnt.O_oVgK'
> 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 645,
> in start_install
> tmpfiles = self._prepare_install_location(meter)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/ParaVirtGuest.py",
> line 65, in _prepare_install_location
> (kernelfn,initrdfn,args) =
> DistroManager.acquireKernel(self.location, meter,
> scratchdir=self.scratchdir, type=self.type)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py",
> line 562, in acquireKernel
> if not fetcher.prepareLocation(progresscb):
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py",
> line 106, in prepareLocation
> self.mntdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="virtinstmnt.",
> dir=self.scratchdir)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/tempfile.py", line 328, in mkdtemp
> _os.mkdir(file, 0700)
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> '/var/lib/xen/virtinstmnt.O_oVgK'
>
> i checked for directory /var/lib/xen it is missing i could see
> /var/lib/xend though
>
Did you say RHEL 3 update 5? There is no paravirtualized kernel for any
RHEL 3 update. Fully virtualized is your only option. RHEL 4.5 (just
released) is paravirtualizable, as well as RHEL 5.0.
Take care,
--Hugh
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hbrock at redhat.com | virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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