[libvirt] Re: starting vm using virsh somewhat fails

[Ricardo Tiago]

Ok, I see that I get a kernel panic when starting with virsh but not
with xen create. Seems to be strange.

There is no apparent difference between the xm cfg and the xml description.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Ricardo Tiago <rtiago at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I have started a vm using virsh create domain.xml and it starts for a
> second and then its destroyed automatically. When I do xm create -f
> <xm cfg> it works fine.
>
> I don't know if this is relevant but
>
> virsh net-list --all
> Name                 State      Autostart
> -----------------------------------------
> default              inactive   yes
>
> virsh net-start default
> error: Failed to start network default
> error: Failed to open file '/etc/sysconfig/system-config-firewall': No
> such file or directory
>
> Can this be the problem? Why do I need /etc/sysconfig/system-config-firewall?
>
>
> Domain XML Description: (converted from a xm cfg file)
> <domain type='xen'>
>  <name>rtiago_test</name>
>  <uuid>8f07fe28-753f-2729-d76d-bdbd892f949a</uuid>
>  <memory>2560000</memory>
>  <currentMemory>200000</currentMemory>
>  <vcpu>8</vcpu>
>  <bootloader>/usr/bin/pygrub</bootloader>
>  <os>
>    <type arch='x86_64' machine='xenpv'>linux</type>
>    <cmdline>rtiago</cmdline>
>  </os>
>  <clock offset='utc'/>
>  <on_poweroff>restart</on_poweroff>
>  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
>  <on_crash>restart</on_crash>
>  <devices>
>    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
>      <driver name='file'/>
>      <source file='/images/fc-6.img'/>
>      <target dev='xvda1' bus='xen'/>
>    </disk>
> </domain>
>