[Fedora-xen] Problem with virt-manager

[Markus Armbruster]

Falk Zimmermann <zimmermann at ccrl-nece.de> writes:

> I'm running FC7 on an x86_64 with the 2.6.20-2925.13.fc7xen kernel and
> using virt-manager to configure an F7 guest domain.
> Immediately after starting the installation process I receive the
> following error message:
>
> Unable to complete install: 'virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST
> operation failed: (xend.err 'Device 51712 (tap) could not be
> connected.\n/home/falk/images/f6u1_img does not exist.')'
>
> Details:
> Unable to complete install '<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'>
> virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: (xend.err 'Device
> 51712 (tap) could not be connected.\n/home/falk/images/f6u1_img does
> not exist.')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 681, in
> do_install
>    dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 710,
> in start_install
>    return self._do_install(consolecb, meter)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 727,
> in _do_install
>    self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 480, in
> createLinux
>    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed',
> conn=self)
> libvirtError: virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed:
> (xend.err 'Device 51712 (tap) could not be
> connected.\n/home/falk/images/f6u1_img does not exist.')
> '
> I receive the message independent of the file I choose. The systems
> always considers it as non-existing.
>
> Has anyone experienced and solved this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Falk

SELinux?  Does it work when you put your image in
/var/lib/xen/images/ ?