[libvirt] Re: virsh/virt-install for dummies
Jun Koi
junkoi2004 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 10:32:48 UTC 2008
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Jun Koi <junkoi2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am frustrated searching for a quick-start documentation for virsh,
> just to no avail. Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
> Here is what I did:
> - Compile and install libvirt, virt-manager, virt-install and
> virt-viewer from source code. This is done (on Ubuntu 8.04).
> - Now I want to do install a new VM with QEMU or KVM. I got the below
> error with virt-install:
>
>
> # virt-install -c qemu:///system --name jeos2 --ram 500 --file
> img.jeos2 --cdrom jeos-8.04.1-jeos-i386.iso
> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:19:10 ERROR virConnectOpen() failed
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 496, in <module>
> main()
> File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 345, in main
> conn = cli.getConnection(options.connect)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/cli.py", line 92, in
> getConnection
> return libvirt.open(connect)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 139, in open
> if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpen() failed')
> libvirtError: virConnectOpen() failed
>
>
>
> How to fix this? Perhaps I need to run libvirtd before using virsh???
I tried to run libvirtd to see if that fixes the problem, but got the
below error:
# libvirtd
libvir: QEMU error : internal error failed to set bridge forward delay to 0
Failed to autostart network 'default': internal error failed to set
bridge forward delay to 0
Thanks,
Jun
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