[et-mgmt-tools] koan error on creating image based guest

Michael DeHaan mdehaan at redhat.com
Fri Jan 9 15:23:12 UTC 2009


Tom Brown wrote:
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>   
>> Tom Brown wrote:
>>     
>>> For the first time i am trying to create a windows guest with koan - 
>>> Its quite possible i missed something but this is the result from koan.
>>>
>>> I am using the latest 1.4 of koan and cobbler
>>>
>>> # koan --virt --image=win-xp --server=192.168.11.1
>>> - ISO or Image based installation, always uses --virt-type=qemu
>>> - no virt-type specified, auto-selecting qemu
>>> libvirtd (pid 2313) is running...
>>> - using qemu hypervisor, type=qemu
>>> exceptions.NameError
>>> global name 'utils' is not defined
>>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 186, in main
>>>    k.run()
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 403, in run
>>>    self.virt()
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 678, in virt
>>>    return self.net_install(after_download)
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 597, in 
>>> net_install
>>>    after_download(self, profile_data)
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 676, in 
>>> after_download
>>>    self.virt_net_install(profile_data)
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 1082, in 
>>> virt_net_install
>>>    virt_type     =  self.virt_type
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/qcreate.py", line 92, 
>>> in start_install
>>>    (tempdir, filename) = utils.nfsmount(input_path)
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
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>> It does appear to be a missing import.    Perhaps some weird Python 
>> interpreter thing allowed the utils to "just work" as the parent 
>> module had already imported it?   Really that shouldn't happen.
>>
>> Ultimately though, you probably want the cobbler mailing list for 
>> stuff like this -- https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
>>
>> I'll fix it.
>>     
>
> looks much better now -
>
> # koan --virt --image=win-xp --server=192.168.11.1
> - ISO or Image based installation, always uses --virt-type=qemu
> - no virt-type specified, auto-selecting qemu
> libvirtd (pid 2313) is running...
> - using qemu hypervisor, type=qemu
> - running: /bin/mount -t nfs -o ro 
> 192.168.11.1:/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/windows /tmp/koan_6eIz11.mnt
> after install completes, you may unmount and delete /tmp/koan_6eIz11.mnt
> - adding disk: /opt/qemu//Thu_Jan__8_21_42_32_2009-disk0 of size 10
> libvir: QEMU error :
> libvir: QEMU error :
> use virt-manager and connect to qemu to manage guest: 
> Thu_Jan__8_21_42_32_2009
>
> Sorry for wrong list - mixup with my folders
>
> thanks
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>   

Excellent, I'll get this fixed for koan 1.4.1 (going out today).

--Michael





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