[libvirt-users] creating new vm with virt-manager, existing disk failure

[Marko Weber]

Hi pavel,

Am 2017-07-19 14:01, schrieb Pavel Hrdina:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:45:36AM +0200, Marko Weber | 8000 wrote:
>> 
>> hello,
>> i rsynced a kvm vm from one host to another.
>> i start virt-manager and tell virt-manager to use an existing disk.
>> i set cpu to haswell that is on the host.
>> 
>> configure before start is set, and i start "begin installation".
>> I get this output by virt-manager:
>> 
>> Unable to complete install: 'internal error: process exited while
>> connecting to monitor: 2017-07-19T09:27:10.861928Z qemu-system-x86_64:
>> can't apply global Haswell-x86_64-cpu.cmt=on: Property '.cmt' not 
>> found'
>> 
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 88, in
>> cb_wrapper
>>      callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
>>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 2288, in
>> _do_async_install
>>      guest.start_install(meter=meter)
>>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 477, in
>> start_install
>>      doboot, transient)
>>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 405, in
>> _create_guest
>>      self.domain.create()
>>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1062, in
>> create
>>      if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed',
>> dom=self)
>> libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to
>> monitor: 2017-07-19T09:27:10.861928Z qemu-system-x86_64: can't apply
>> global Haswell-x86_64-cpu.cmt=on: Property '.cmt' not found
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> try to set it to another cpu and clicking start, i get this:
>> 
>> Unable to complete install: 'Domain has already been started!'
>> 
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 88, in
>> cb_wrapper
>>      callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
>>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 2288, in
>> _do_async_install
>>      guest.start_install(meter=meter)
>>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 455, in
>> start_install
>>      raise RuntimeError(_("Domain has already been started!"))
>> RuntimeError: Domain has already been started!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> how do i stop the already runing vm? virsh list dont show the vm
>> and why do i get the error on haswell?
> 
> Hi, this is actually a bug in virt-manager which was fixed in upstream
> by these commits:
> 
>     2099a1946e22b62d31b954dc3e7b813404c2d019
>     93085d2b9d4a3dd6cbb9edfeae9b6cefee9419c1
>     8181e8609867fe6ed101e48212d42a1c38373539
> 
> To work-around this issue cancel the installation and start it again.
> There is no official release of virt-manager with that fix included, we
> should probably make the release.
> 
> Pavel

can you tell me if this problem is solved in the time?
We need this way to migrate machines. Or is it not planned to fix this 
bug?


kind regards
marko