[Fedora-xen] Some newbie xen questions

[Sadique Puthen]

Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> I'm learning xen on a machine with fc6.i386.
>
> The CPU can do pae and vmx.
>
> I have some problems:
>
> 1. virt-manager doesn't start when I'm logged in as
>    root:
>
> # virt-manager
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 56, in ?
>     import gtk
> ImportError: No module named gtk
>
> It works if I start /usr/bin/virt-manager instead of 
> /usr/sbin/virt-manager.
>
> 2. xm doesn't start:
>
> # xm
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/xm", line 8, in ?
>     from xen.xm import main
> ImportError: No module named xen.xm
>
> 3. If I create a guest and start an installation
> (I've tried FC6 and W2K), the guest doesn't come
> up again after the "reboot".
>
> For W2K I can fix this problem by creating a new
> machine on the same partition and boot from the w2k
> CD. When it says "press any key to boot from CD",
> I don't. Installing&updating W2K requires some
> reboots, this leaves quite some ghost virtual
> machines :-)

As of now virt-manager doesn't have the ability to manage inactive 
domains. You need to boot the guest from the backend using "xm create 
<name>"
>
> 3. The two mouse cursors in the virtual console
> don't follow each other, this is quite annoying.
>
> # rpm -qa|fgrep xen
> kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6
> xen-devel-3.0.3-3.fc6
> xen-libs-3.0.3-3.fc6
> xen-3.0.3-3.fc6
>
> # rpm -qa|fgrep virt
> python-virtinst-0.98.0-1.fc6
> virt-manager-0.2.6-3.fc6
> libvirt-0.1.10-1.fc6
> libvirt-python-0.1.10-1.fc6
>
> Mogens
>