[libvirt] pool default not starting on f10

[Jason Guiditta]

On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 12:59 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Jason Guiditta wrote:
> > Hello, hopefully this is something simple I just don't understand how to
> > debug, but right now, it is keeping me from creating any new VMs.  As
> > stated in the subject, I am running F10, on x86_64 arch.  Libvirt
> > version is 0.6.1-5.fc10.  Using virt-manager to create a new vm, when I
> > get to the step to create a disk image, I get the error:
> > 'Storage parameter error. internal error storage pool is not active'.
> > Running 
> > 
> > virsh pool-start default
> > 
> > gets me:
> > error: Failed to start pool default
> > error: out of memory
> > 
> > Note there is no reason my machine would be out of memory, is has 6GB
> > and nothing else running (and tried this right after booting)
> > 
> > virsh pool-list --all
> > 
> > shows default is inactive and 'yes' for autostart
> > 
> > I would be happy to file a bug if needed, but thought I would throw this
> > out to the list first to see if I was just unaware of some simple fix.
> > Let me know if there are other details I can provide to make this easier
> > to solve. Thanks,
> > 
> > -j
> 
> Can you try the following:
> 
> su -
> service libvirtd stop
> libvirtd
> 
> Then from another terminal:
> 
> sudo virsh pool-start default
> 
> And see if anything more informative is printed in the 'libvirtd'
> terminal: there may be a useful error that we are squashing somewhere.
> 
> Thanks,
> Cole
> 
Cole, ok, I tried that, and here is what I got:
libvirtd
libvir: Storage error : cannot open volume
'/var/lib/libvirt/images/f10-dev-server-base.img': No such file or
directory
libvir: Storage error : out of memory

So, since it seemed to be looking for that .img file (couldnt find any
refs to it in /etc/libvirt/qemu/), I cp'ed an existing img file and gave
it that name.  Apparently that was a bad idea, as I now get:

libvirtd
13:29:42.148: error : invalid storage volume pointer in no storage vol
with matching path
libvir: Storage error : invalid storage volume pointer in no storage vol
with matching path
13:29:42.170: error : invalid storage volume pointer in no storage vol
with matching path
libvir: Storage error : invalid storage volume pointer in no storage vol
with matching path


This list continues for some time.  I have pastebin'ed the full output
if you want it here: http://pastebin.com/d3f4ae378

At this point, virsh pool-start default gives me 
13:32:14.223: error : internal error pool already active
libvir: Storage error : internal error pool already active

from my console with libvirtd running.  If I go ahead and try to create
a VM again with virt-manager (reopened since I restarted libvirtd), I
get:
13:32:43.791: error : Domain not found
libvir: QEMU error : Domain not found
13:32:51.720: error : Domain not found
libvir: QEMU error : Domain not found

from libvirtd at each step.  If you don't have anything else you want me
to try, I will look up the libvirt build steps and try applying that
patch you sent. Thanks,

-j