Hi, Thanks for the replies. I attempted to use the virt-manager gui to create a new guest. The process created the img file the spun its wheels for the rest of the night. I had to manually kill the virt-manager. I poked around and found that virt-manager had finished creating the .img file but had not created the /etc/xen/vigilance config file. So I then copied the "/etc/xen/xmexample.hvm" that shipped with the xen rpm and modified it to meet my needs and pointed it to the vigilance.img file that virt-manager created. I set the boot parameter in the config to boot from CD and used xm create /etc/xen/vigilance to start it up. Everything went fine and I installed the guest OS and can run it fine using xm. Why can't virt-manager see it? Thanks Miguel On Jan 21, 2008 2:32 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:18:09PM -0500, Lionel Kernux wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running RHEL 5.1 and created a xen guest (RHEL4) manually by > > detting everything up in a .hvm file. I have started and stopped thge > > VM via xm create and it runs just fine. What steps are needed to allow > > it to be managed from the virt-manager gui? It doesn't show up in the > > list in the gui. Only VM's created from within the gui seem to show. I > > undersand that virt-manager uses xml files and a database to store VM > > info. Is there soem way to "import" a .hvm file into virt-manager? > > I've no idea what a '.hvm' file is. In RHEL-5, virt-manager provides access > to inactive guests defined in /etc/xen. The file names in that directory > are required to match the name of the guest - ie if your guest is called > 'demo', the file must be /etc/xen/demo. Any other filename is unsupported. > Do not add file extensions. Do not add other non-guest config files in > that directory > > 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 -=| > > > _______________________________________________ > et-mgmt-tools mailing list > et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools > _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
