[Ovirt-devel] Error starting a virtual machine

Benjamin Kingsolver bkingsolver at ltgc.com
Wed Aug 26 20:51:39 UTC 2009


I've been playing with ovirt built from source. When I try to start my 
first VM, I get this error in taskomatic.log:

INFO Wed Aug 26 14:33:28 -0600 2009 (12750) starting task_start_vm
INFO Wed Aug 26 14:33:29 -0600 2009 (12750) VM will be started on node 
node94.ovirt.priv
DEBUG Wed Aug 26 14:33:29 -0600 2009 (12750) Connecting volumes:
DEBUG Wed Aug 26 14:33:29 -0600 2009 (12750) XML Domain definition: 
<domain 
type='kvm'><name>test2</name><uuid>04b5678b-10dc-155e-b7b3-b5e078466b6f</uuid><memory>524288</memory><currentMemory></currentMemory><vcpu>2</vcpu><os><type>hvm</type><boot 
dev='network'/></os><clock 
offset='utc'/><on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff><on_reboot>restart</on_reboot><on_crash>destroy</on_crash><devices><emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator><interface 
type='bridge'><mac address='00:16:3e:1f:b6:eb'/><source 
bridge='breth0'/></interface><input bus='ps2' type='mouse'/><graphics 
type='vnc' port='-1' listen='0.0.0.0'/><serial type='pty'><target 
port='0'/></serial></devices><features><acpi/><apic/></features></domain>
ERROR Wed Aug 26 14:33:29 -0600 2009 (12750) Task action processing 
failed: RuntimeError: Error defining virtual machine: Error: Error 
creating domain using xml description (virDomainDefineXML). Subsystem 
unknown: internal error no supported architecture for os type 'hvm' in 
NodeWrap.cpp:ManagementMethod:414
ERROR Wed Aug 26 14:33:29 -0600 2009 (12750) 
/usr/share/ovirt-server/task-omatic/taskomatic.rb:395:in 
`task_start_vm'/usr/share/ovirt-server/task-omatic/taskomatic.rb:904:in 
`mainloop'/usr/share/ovirt-server/task-omatic/taskomatic.rb:890:in 
`each'/usr/share/ovirt-server/task-omatic/taskomatic.rb:890:in 
`mainloop'/usr/share/ovirt-server/task-omatic/taskomatic.rb:856:in 
`loop'/usr/share/ovirt-server/task-omatic/taskomatic.rb:856:in 
`mainloop'/usr/share/ovirt-server/task-omatic/taskomatic.rb:957
INFO Wed Aug 26 14:33:29 -0600 2009 (12750) done

Any advice on how to start troubleshooting this?




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