Creating a Windws XP virtual machine Fedora 11

[Bill Davidsen]

James Harrison wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to create a virtual machine and install Windows XP. I am 
> using Fedora 11.The system was last fully patched about an hour ago.
> 
> selinux is disabled.
> 
I suspect from your output that you are using virt-manager. You might try just 
doing the creation from command line and see if creating the image and running 
kvm from cli works. That will help localize the part not working.

I have no problems running that way.

> root at pc32 ~]# uname -a
> Linux x.com 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 17:16:21 
> EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> When booting the virtual machine for the first time, the VM hangs with: 
> "Booting from hard disk". Nothing else appears.
> 
> When I shutdown the VM /var/log/messages has:
> Sep  2 03:42:44 pc32 libvirtd: 03:42:44.714: error : operation failed: 
> could not query memory balloon allocation
> 
> ... and a d ialogue box appears with the same message: here is the trace:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 507, in 
> shutdown_domain vm.shutdown()
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 566, in 
> shutdown self._update_status()
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 217, in 
> _update_status info = self.vm.info()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 523, in info
>     if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virDomainGetInfo() failed', 
> dom=self)
> libvirtError: operation failed: could not query memory balloon allocation
> 
> Thanks,
> James Harrison
> 


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