[libvirt] Fail to import available VM image

Laine Stump laine at laine.org
Tue Feb 14 17:01:01 UTC 2012


On 02/14/2012 11:01 AM, Jun Koi wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Alex Jia <ajia at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jun,
>> I assume you haven't changed libvirt default URI, it may be a issue,
>> I want to know whether it works for you if you explicitly specify
>> --connect qemu:///system with virt-install? I think a root reason
>> probably is your disk image location, the log said it can't find
>> storage volume, if you put img.winp under the /var/lib/libvirt/images,
>> then give a disk absolute path to virt-install, Does it work for you?
> ok, i change the command a bit, and it went further.
> here is how i did:
>
> (1) compiled everything from source, then install (make install) to my Ubuntu
>
> (2) start libvirtd on commandline
> # libvirtd -d
>
> (3) import my KVM image to libvirt
>
> $ virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n winxp -r 800 --accelerate
> --vnc -v --noautoconsole --import -f /home/jun/img/img.winxp
>
> it failed, and the log is like below:
>
> ....
> [Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:51:49 virt-install 3831] DEBUG (cli:326)
> Requesting libvirt URI qemu:///system
> [Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:51:51 virt-install 3831] DEBUG (cli:328) Received
> libvirt URI qemu:///system
> [Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:51:52 virt-install 3831] DEBUG (virt-install:259)
> Requesting virt method 'hvm', hv type 'default'.
> [Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:51:52 virt-install 3831] DEBUG (virt-install:469)
> Received virt method 'hvm'
> [Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:51:52 virt-install 3831] DEBUG (virt-install:470)
> Hypervisor name is 'kvm'
> [Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:51:52 virt-install 3831] ERROR (cli:439) Error in
> network device parameters: Virtual network 'default' has not been
> started.
> [Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:51:52 virt-install 3831] DEBUG (cli:440)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst/cli.py", line
> 884, in get_networks
>     dev = parse_network(guest, netstr, mac=mac)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst/cli.py", line
> 1642, in parse_network
>     bridge=opts.get("bridge"))
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst/VirtualNetworkInterface.py",
> line 153, in __init__
>     self.network = network
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst/XMLBuilderDomain.py",
> line 309, in new_setter
>     fset(self, val, *args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst/VirtualNetworkInterface.py",
> line 257, in set_network
>     "started.") % newnet)
> ValueError: Virtual network 'default' has not been started.

A very common cause of this problem is that a systemwide instance of
dnsmasq is already (erroneously) listening on the bridge created by
libvirt for the default network. I took your email as an oppurtunity to
write an entry in the new Troubleshooting section of the libvirt wiki.
It will explain to you how to solve your problem (*if* this is your
problem, of course :-).

 
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtual_network_%27default%27_has_not_been_started

If that ends up not being your problem, please reply to this message,
but sending the reply to libvirt-users at redhat.com (I also Cc'ed this
message there) rather than to libvir-list at redhat.com. (The former is the
official list for user questions about libvirt, whil libvir-list is
intended for for people discussing the code.)


> i guess perhaps just starting "libvirtd -d" on commandline is not
> enough. do i need a script to configure and start libvirtd properly
> for me?
> and it seems i must configure the virtual network somehow?

The "default" network should already be there as part of the stock install.





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