[libvirt-users] Creating Domain and moving a kvm disk under libvirt control

[James Allsopp]

HI,
This is how the install fails, and I've checked the path to the install;
Hawaiian:/etc/libvirt/qemu# virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n
nagios -r 512 --vcpus=2 --disk
path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/nagios.img,size=6.5 -c
/var/lib/libvirt/images/debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso --vnc
--noautoconsole --os-type linux --os-variant debiansqueeze
--accelerate --network=bridge:br0 --hvm


Starting install...
Allocating 'nagios.img'                                  | 6.5 GB     00:00
Creating domain...                                       |    0 B     00:00
Domain installation does not appear to have been
 successful.  If it was, you can restart your domain
 by running 'virsh start nagios'; otherwise, please

I'm using libvirt-bin version 0.8.3-5+squeeze2 and qemu-kvm
0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze8

The log didn't contain anything explicit about an error.

If you can help with this I would be very grateful,
James


On 19/04/2012, Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/19/2012 04:28 PM, James Allsopp wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to start using libvirt on my debian machine, but am having
>> some issues. Regardless of using command-line or gui interface with
>> virt-manager, building the virtual machine stalls on 0 with no
>> indication of why it has stopped working. How do I go about fixing this
>> or diagnosing this problem.
>
> You aren't giving us much to go on.  Have you looked at the
> troubleshooting wiki page, to see if any of those symptoms appear to
> match your situation?
>
> http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Troubleshooting
>
> What versions of libvirt and qemu-kvm do you have installed?  What
> command line are you executing when you hit your failure?  Have you
> looked for log files, such as /var/log/libvirt/qemu/$dom.log, for clues?
>
>>
>> Also I've a .img file that work s with KVM, would there be anyway to
>> import it for use with libvirt?
>
> Yes, virt-manager can reuse an existing disk instead of creating new
> storage when using it to wire up a domain.  Another idea is to create a
> domain using a scratch image location, then use 'virsh edit' and look
> for the <disk> designation of that location, and edit it to point
> instead to your pre-existing .img file.
>
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> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>
>