[et-mgmt-tools] strange virt-install/koan issue

[Michael DeHaan]

Brenton Leanhardt wrote:
> I've recently upgraded a machine to F9 (fresh install) and I'm hitting
> a strange virt-install/koan issue. The machine is i386 and HVM is
> enabled in the BIOS.
>
> Running "virt-install" with no arguments yields: "Unsupported
> virtualization type". Running with the "--hvm" flag works as
> expected. In the past virt-install had always done the right thing
> whenever KVM was the only option.
>
> The only reason I suspect my koan problem is related is simply because
> of the error message, and that koan uses virt-install. The Virt host
> is running F9 with KVM. Here is the output from koan:
>
> koan -s [my cobbler server] --virt --virt-type=qemu
> --virt-path=/images --profile Fedora9-i386 --virt-name=bleanhar1-koan
> --virt-bridge=br0 - reading URL:
> http://10.11.227.63/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/Fedora9-i386
> install_tree: http://10.11.227.63/cblr/links/Fedora9-i386
> libvirtd (pid 2897) is running...
> - using qemu hypervisor, type=kvm
> - adding disk: /images/bleanhar1-koan-disk0 of size 5
> libvir: QEMU error : Domain not found
> libvir: QEMU error : Domain not found
> libvir: QEMU error : internal error unsupported architecture ...<snip>
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line
> 866, in _do_install
> self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 841, in
> createLinux
> if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed',
> conn=self)
>
>
>
>
> Any thoughts on what could cause the "Unsupported virtualization type"
> and the "unsupported architecture" errors? I've already triple
> checked that the guest being installed is i386 and that "virt-install
> --hvm" actually works.
>
> --Brenton
>
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Can you share your ~/.koan/*.log and also the versions of the associated 
packages?

This can possibly help identify what koan should be doing with the 
virt-install APIs, but maybe isn't, in your case.

--Michael