On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Cole Robinson<crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jun Koi wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Cole Robinson<crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Jun Koi wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> To use libvirt, I am strying to use virt-install to create a new VM >>>> from an existent (KVM) VM image. I did the following steps: >>>> >>>> 1) run libvirtd with "libvirtd -d" (I use the latest libvirt git tree) >>>> >>>> 2) Run virt-install (0.400.3) with my existent image in img/img.winxp >>>> >>>> # virt-install --import -n winxp -f img/img.xp3 --vnc --hvm >>>> --accelerate --ram 800 >>>> >>> That looks fine. >>> >>>> However, this step returns error like: >>>> >>>> "ERROR Could not find usable default libvirt connection." >>>> >>> If 'virsh --connect qemu:///system' doesn't work, you probably didn't >>> configure your libvirt install correctly. >>> >> >> But it works! So the problem stays elsewhere. >> >> Do you have any suggestion? >> > > Hmm, then you probably need this patch to virtinst, since our URI detection > likely isn't as thorough as libvirt: > > http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-virt.cgi/applications/virtinst--devel/rev/030fbc6df74f > I got the latest code from hg tree, and installed that. But running "virt-install" (without option) returns the error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/virt-install", line 36, in <module> from virtinst.VirtualCharDevice import VirtualCharDevice ImportError: No module named VirtualCharDevice How to fix this problem? Thanks, J -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list