+++ Brenton Leanhardt [16/07/08 11:13 -0400]:
+++ Michael DeHaan [16/07/08 11:05 -0400]:
<snip>
Brenton Leanhardt wrote:
Can you share your ~/.koan/*.log and also the versions of the associated
packages?
This can possibly help identify what koan should be doing with the
virt-install APIs, but maybe isn't, in your case.
--Michael
koan-1.0.1-1.fc9.noarch
kvm-65-7.fc9.i386
python-virtinst-0.300.3-7.fc9.noarch
kernel-2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686
I've attached the logs though I think I finally found something
interesting.
I copied the temporay kernel, initrd, and xml used during the koan
process. I then made one modification to the xml, removing the
"arch='i386'" attribute from the os type. I noticed the xml created
by the virt-install cli didn't have that so I took a shot in the dark.
Seconds later I was actually able to run 'virsh start mydomain.xml'
and have it work. I suspect that if we can get koan to not set that
attribute it will solve my problem.
<snip>
More interesting advancements in tracking down this issue:
1) Removing "arch='i386'" allows for kvm guests to be
provisioned
2) Changing "arch='i386'" to "arch='i686'" also allows kvm guests to
be provisioned on my hardware
After digging through all the libraries involved in the koan process I
couldn't determine a _good_ way to implement #1. As for #2 I'm
starting to wonder if my problem isn't related to how 'cobbler import'
works. 'i686' is not a valid architecture for cobbler distros while both
'i386' and 'x86' are.
Here's something interesting from koan/qcreate.py:
if arch is not None and arch.lower() == "x86":
arch = "i686"
Unfortuntely it seems like 'x86' is never returned from Cobbler for a
profile's arch, only 'i386', therefore the arch never get's set to
'i686' in my case. As mentioned in #2, if "i686" could somehow be
set, I think koan would work for me.
Questions:
1) Why does a kvm guest with a 'i386' arch not work on my hardware yet
'i686' does?
2) Should "cobbler import" import 'i386' distros as 'x86'?
3) Should cobblerd return 'x86' whenever the arch is 'x86' or 'i386'?
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