[Fedora-xen] Problem about creating virtual machine in FC6

[John Summerfield]

Sadique Puthen wrote:
> taoj2 at cs.rpi.edu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed FC6 and I was trying to create a new virtual machine with the
>> virtual machine manager. I selected to use FC6 again as the guesting 
>> OS of
>> the new virtual machine.
>>
>> Everytime after I finishing install of the guest OS, It gave me a prompt
>> to reboot the guest system. But After I click the "reboot" button, the
>> vitual machine gone. It's weird. I think the reboot shouldn't make the
>> guest OS crash.
>>
>> I use the /var/lib/xen/images/box1 as the storage space of the guest 
>> OS. I
>> found that the file box1 is still there. So I was trying to use the
>> "restore saved machine" of virtual machine manager to reload it, However
>> it said that "Error restoring domain '/var/lib/xen/images/box1'. Is the
>> domain already running?"
>>   
> 
> "restore saved machine" is to restore machine which is saved using 
> Virtual Machine -> save, not to start vms which are shut down.
> As of now, virt-manager is only capable of managing active/running vms. 
> Managing inactive domains using virt-manager is something for future... 
> You sould use "xm crate <config file name>" to boot a machine.

s=crate=create=

>> SO I use the "xm list" to show all domains, only domain0 is there.

Read the documentation, the explanation's there.





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