[libvirt] /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/physical_package_id: No such file or directory (was: Re: Need help with virt_install)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:12:24PM -0700, JD wrote:
> /virt-install \
>                --connect qemu:///system \
>                --name Fedora_14_i386 \
>                --ram 500 \
>                --disk path=/dev/sdc \
>                --network network:default \
>                --arch i386 \
>                --os-variant fedora14 \
>                --vnc \
>                --location 
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/i386/os/
> 
> Starting install.../ /
> Retrieving file .treeinfo...                             | 2.4 kB     
> 00:00 ...
> Retrieving file vmlinuz...                               | 7.1 MB     
> 00:05 ...
> Retrieving file initrd.img...                            |  60 MB     
> 00:45 ...
> ERROR    internal error Process exited while reading console log output: 
> libvir: error : cannot open 
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/physical_package_id: No such file 
> or directory
> 
> Domain installation does not appear to have been
> successful. If it was, you can restart your domain
> by running 'virsh start Fedora_14_i386'; otherwise, please
> restart your installation./
> 
> 
> is the missing /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/physical_package_id
> caused by kernel configuration settings?
> 
> 
> The relevant installed packages are:
> 
> libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686
> python-virtinst-0.500.4-1.fc13.noarch
> python-virtinst-0.500.4-1.fc13.noarch
> virt-ctrl-1.0.1-4.fc12.i686
> libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686
> virt-mem-0.3.1-9.fc12.i686
> libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686
> virt-mem-0.3.1-9.fc12.i686
> python-virtinst-0.500.4-1.fc13.noarch
> libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686
> python-virtinst-0.500.4-1.fc13.noarch
> libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686
> libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686
> libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686
> libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686
> virt-manager-0.8.5-1.fc13.noarch
> virt-mem-0.3.1-9.fc12.i686
> libvirt-client-0.8.2-2.fc13.i686
> virt-mem-0.3.1-9.fc12.i686
> libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686
> libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686
> libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686
> virt-top-1.0.4-3.fc13.i686
> virt-mem-0.3.1-9.fc12.i686
> virt-viewer-0.2.1-1.fc13.i686
> libguestfs-tools-1.6.2-1.fc13.4.i686
> libvirt-client-0.8.2-2.fc13.i686

(CCing libvir-list)

I would say that this is a bug in libvirt.  Since you are using
quite an old version, can you try upgrading to the new libvirt in
Fedora 14/15 and see if that fixes it?

Rich.

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