[Fedora-xen] First VM error: No such domain vmguest1

[Peter Guthrie]

Can anyone help with the following error I get when trying to create my 
first VM.

Xen0 host is FC5 x86_64 on a dual cpu, dual core opteron 275 with 4Gb of 
memory up to date with patches.

# uname -a
Linux dhcp-201.local.net 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5xen0 #1 SMP Tue Jul 11 
23:30:05 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# xenguest-install.py
What is the name of your virtual machine? vmguest1
 How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 512
 What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /var/tmp/vmguest1-disk
 How large would you like the disk to be (in gigabytes)? 8
 What is the install location? 
http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/


Starting install...
libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: No such domain vmguest1
Failed to get devices for domain vmguest1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py", line 460, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py", line 451, in main
    start_paravirt_install(name, ram, disk, mac, uuid, src, options.extra)
  File "/usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py", line 331, in start_paravirt_install
    dom = conn.createLinux(cfgxml, 0)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 233, in 
createLinux    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() 
failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: virDomainCreateLinux() failed

Here's the output from 'xm log':

[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1216) 
XendDomainInfo.construct: None
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1248) 
XendDomainInfo.initDomain: 1 1.0
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend] DEBUG (balloon:134) Balloon: free 128; need 
513; retries: 10.
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend] DEBUG (balloon:143) Balloon: setting dom0 
target to 3393.
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:987) 
Setting memory target of domain Domain-0 (0) to 3393 MiB.
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend] DEBUG (balloon:128) Balloon: free 513; need 
513; done.
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend] INFO (image:134) buildDomain os=linux dom=1 
vcpus=1
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend] DEBUG (image:177) dom            = 1
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend] DEBUG (image:178) image          = 
/var/lib/xen/vmlinuz.i0GIQN
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend] DEBUG (image:179) store_evtchn   = 1
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend] DEBUG (image:180) console_evtchn = 2
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend] DEBUG (image:181) cmdline        =   
root=/dev/xvd 
method=http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend] DEBUG (image:182) ramdisk        = 
/var/lib/xen/initrd.img.4rNZB1
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend] DEBUG (image:183) vcpus          = 1
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend] DEBUG (image:184) features       =
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend.XendDomainInfo] ERROR (XendDomainInfo:197) 
Domain construction failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", 
line 190, in create
    vm.initDomain()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", 
line 1311, in initDomain
    raise VmError(str(exn))
VmError: (9, \047Bad file descriptor\047)
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1397) 
XendDomainInfo.destroy: domid=1
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1405) 
XendDomainInfo.destroyDomain(1)
[2006-08-10 16:47:50 xend] ERROR (SrvBase:87) Request create failed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/web/SrvBase.py", line 85, 
in perform
    return op_method(op, req)
  File 
"/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDomainDir.py", 
line 82, in op_create
    raise XendError("Error creating domain: " + str(ex))
XendError: Error creating domain: (9, \047Bad file descriptor\047)


Looks like some sort of path error creating one of the files.

Peter