[Fedora-xen] Fedora 7 virtual machine problems
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Wed Jun 6 13:29:24 UTC 2007
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:25:27AM +0100, John Lagrue wrote:
> I have at least two problems running a virtual machine on F7
>
> 1. When I run qemu from the command line I can create a virtual
> disk, run a virtual machine and install Windows XP on it. I can do
> this because it enables me to define the cdrom on the command line
> with "-cdrom /dev/cdrom". But I can't get any further because it keeps
> giving me an error saying "A problem is preventing Windows from
> accurately checking the license for this computer"
>
> If I run the same virtual machine from the virtual machine manager I
> don't get that error. But I don't get the CD ROM either
Huh ? The new virtual machine wizard *requires* that you provide a
ISO image or CDROM device to do a fullyvirtualized install in QEMU.
I'm not sure how you'd create a QEMU vm without getting a CDROM ?
> 2. The above was obtained with QEMU. If I try to connect the Virtual
> Machine Manager to XEN I get an error that tells me that either I'm
> not running a XEN-enabled kernel, or the XEN service isn't running.
> Unfortunately, it is running!
Check /root/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log for further details ? Also
does virsh list work ?
Dan.
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