On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:26:17PM +0530, satyaakam goswami wrote: > Configuration is as follows > > Hardware Sun X2200 > Xen-unstable > virt-manager : 0.4.0 > > I am able to successfully run RHEL 3.0 update 5 as DomU in fully > virtualized mode when i try creating a VM using virt-manager in > paravirtualized mode i get the following errors > > Unable to complete install 'exceptions.OSError [Errno 2] No such file > or directory: '/var/lib/xen/virtinstmnt.O_oVgK' > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line > 677, in do_install > dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 645, > in start_install > tmpfiles = self._prepare_install_location(meter) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/ParaVirtGuest.py", > line 65, in _prepare_install_location > (kernelfn,initrdfn,args) = > DistroManager.acquireKernel(self.location, meter, > scratchdir=self.scratchdir, type=self.type) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py", > line 562, in acquireKernel > if not fetcher.prepareLocation(progresscb): > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/DistroManager.py", > line 106, in prepareLocation > self.mntdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="virtinstmnt.", > dir=self.scratchdir) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/tempfile.py", line 328, in mkdtemp > _os.mkdir(file, 0700) > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: > '/var/lib/xen/virtinstmnt.O_oVgK' > > i checked for directory /var/lib/xen it is missing i could see > /var/lib/xend though Traditionally the directory /var/lib/xen is where pygrub spits out the boot files it extracts, so we made virt-install/virt-manager point to the same place. This dir should be created by the Xen makefiles during the make install process. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
