[libvirt-users] VirtualBox + Virsh

[Peter Teoh]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 2:54 AM, Julian Zhou <jzhou2oo6 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi I am trying to add a virtualbox domain to my virsh installation, I get:
>
>  error: Failed to define domain from Ondria.xml >>
> <https://gist.github.com/jztech101/5aeebb82412c1910dc1f>
> https://gist.github.com/jztech101/5aeebb82412c1910dc1f << error: internal
> error: unexpected domain type vbox, expecting one of these: qemu, kqemu,
> kvm, xen.
>
>  virsh is compiled with VirtualBox support so I'm confused:
>
> Virsh -V >> Virsh command line tool of libvirt 1.2.2
> See web site at  <http://libvirt.org/>http://libvirt.org/
>
> Compiled with support for:
>  Hypervisors: QEMU/KVM LXC UML Xen LibXL OpenVZ VMWare VirtualBox Test
>  Networking: Remote Network Bridging Interface netcf Nwfilter VirtualPort
>  Storage: Dir Disk Filesystem SCSI Multipath iSCSI LVM RBD Sheepdog
>  Miscellaneous: Daemon Nodedev AppArmor Secrets Debug Readline Modular.
>
> After some insight, I decided to run it like this instead: " virsh -c
> vbox:///session create Ondria.xml"
> Now I get:
>
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
> error: internal error: unable to initialize VirtualBox driver API
>
> So, after further insight, I ran "export
> VBOX_APP_HOME=/usr/lib/virtualbox" and tried again. Same error as above.
> (/usr/lib/virtualbox is where VBoxCPCOMC.so lies and I'm told the reason
> for the above error is it cannot find that file in any "normal" location.
> Help? It should be noted I installed VirtualBox-5.0 directly from the VBox
> Repo for Ubuntu 14.04LTS
>
>
not sure if it help:   Ubuntu libvirt's driver for Virtualbox is disabled
by default:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/667076

So...u may have do recompile it as follow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2778638/libvirt-and-virtualbox-getting-started


> Regards,
> Julian Zhou
>
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Regards,
Peter Teoh
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