[et-mgmt-tools] Re: strange virt-install/koan issue

[Brenton Leanhardt]

+++ Brenton Leanhardt [15/07/08 20:05 -0400]:
> I've recently upgraded a machine to F9 (fresh install) and I'm hitting
> a strange virt-install/koan issue.  The machine is i386 and HVM is
> enabled in the BIOS.
>
> Running "virt-install" with no arguments yields: "Unsupported
> virtualization type".  Running with the "--hvm" flag works as
> expected.  In the past virt-install had always done the right thing
> whenever KVM was the only option.

I must have been confused about the virt-install functionality.  After
a quick look at the code it looks like it simply defaults to 'xen' for
the os_type whenever you don't specify '--hvm' on the command line,
hence the "Unsupported virtualization type" error.

Now to debug the error from koan since all the virt-install stuff was
really just yak shaving.
>
> The only reason I suspect my koan problem is related is simply because
> of the error message, and that koan uses virt-install.  The Virt host
> is running F9 with KVM.  Here is the output from koan:
>
> koan -s [my cobbler server] --virt --virt-type=qemu
> --virt-path=/images --profile Fedora9-i386  --virt-name=bleanhar1-koan
> --virt-bridge=br0       - reading URL:
> http://10.11.227.63/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/Fedora9-i386
> install_tree: http://10.11.227.63/cblr/links/Fedora9-i386
> libvirtd (pid 2897) is running...
> - using qemu hypervisor, type=kvm
> - adding disk: /images/bleanhar1-koan-disk0 of size 5
> libvir: QEMU error : Domain not found
> libvir: QEMU error : Domain not found
> libvir: QEMU error : internal error unsupported architecture ...<snip>
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line
> 866, in _do_install
>     self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 841, in
> createLinux
>     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed',
> conn=self)
>
>
>
>
> Any thoughts on what could cause the "Unsupported virtualization type"
> and the "unsupported architecture" errors?  I've already triple
> checked that the guest being installed is i386 and that "virt-install
> --hvm" actually works.
>
> --Brenton