[fedora-virt] running Vista under KVM

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 09:34:32 UTC 2009


Hi Wayne,

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 18:19 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 09:52 -0800, Wayne Feick wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 07:55 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote: 
> > > Hi Wayne,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 06:32 +0000, Wayne Feick wrote:
> > > >  I've been trying to experiment with running Vista under KVM today, but
> > > > I'm running into a cryptic error message that doesn't mean much to me:
> > > > 
> > > >         Unable to complete install '<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> internal error QEMU quit during console startup
> > > >         
> > > >         Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > >           File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 723, in do_install
> > > >             dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
> > > >           File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 732, in start_install
> > > >             return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait)
> > > >           File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 767, in _do_install
> > > >             self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
> > > >           File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 915, in createLinux
> > > >             if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
> > > >         libvirtError: internal error QEMU quit during console startup
> > > >         
> > > >         '
> > > 
> > > See this page:
> > > 
> > >   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reporting_virtualization_bugs
> > > 
> > > Is there anything interesting in the log in /var/log/libvirt/qemu?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks, Mark. I was looking in /var/log/messages, but hadn't
> > found /var/log/libvirt/qemu. Here's what it says:
> > 
> >          Supported machines are:
> >         xenfv      Xen Fully-virtualized PC (default)
> >         xenpv      Xen Para-virtualized PC
> >  
> > I eventually figured out that some more services needed to be started,
> > but I wasn't entirely sure which. After a reboot, things seem to be
> > working. 
> > 
> > So the key point is that you can't just install the Fedora 11
> > virtualization group and go, you have to either reboot first, or figure
> > out which services need to be started.
> 
> Interesting indeed. I haven't seen that in my own testing. Please file a
> bug against Fedora/libvirt in bugzilla.redhat.com.

Have you filed that bug? I can't seem to find it, but that's not unusual
with bugzilla :-)

Thanks,
Mark.




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