[libvirt] kvm-qemu emulator problem

Michal Novotny minovotn at redhat.com
Thu Jan 5 11:07:40 UTC 2012


I don't have any experience with fvd however this is not libvirt-related
issue rather than qemu-related. Please try to ask qemu guys how to fix this.

Michal


On 01/05/2012 12:04 PM, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
> Sorry for that 
> I defined it now 
> When I run the command 
>
> [root at localhost qemu]# virsh start guestfvd
> error: Failed to start domain guestfvd
> error: internal error unknown disk format 'fvd' for
> /var/lib/libvirt/images/guestfvd
>
> I know this error sounds like the fvd is not installed but I
> havecompiled it and maked it myself
>
> Qemu-img command list the format fvd along with qed ,qcow2
>
> The binary qemu-system-x86-64 isalso maked as a result of make install
>
> What to do now ???
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michal Novotny [mailto:minovotn at redhat.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 4:14 PM
> To: Pankaj Rawat
> Cc: libvir-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [libvirt] kvm-qemu emulator problem
>
> On 01/05/2012 11:43 AM, Pankaj Rawat wrote:
>> I created a xml file guestfvd.xml
>>
>> Then I made changes as u specified 
>> And when run command
>>
>>
>> [root at localhost qemu]# virsh start guestfvd
>> error: failed to get domain 'guestfvd'
>> error: Domain not found: no domain with matching name 'guestfvd'
>>
>>
>> Now this error make sence since we have'nt created a guest yet how can
>> we start such one.
>> Please correct me if I'm wrong 
>> Can you help me on this
> You forgot to define it first ;-) You have to define it using "virsh
> define guestfvd.xml" first and then start :-) The name of what guest to
> start have to be the same as the one in "//domain/name" node of xPath
> query applied to the XML file.
>
> Michal
>


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Michal Novotny <minovotn at redhat.com>, RHCE, Red Hat
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