On 02/02/2012 08:54 AM, Cheer Xiao wrote: > 2012/2/2 Cole Robinson <crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> On 02/02/2012 08:05 AM, Cheer Xiao wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I was setting up libvirt and virt-manager for managing Xen VMs. But >>> when I hit "New" in virt-manager to provision a new VM, virt-manager >>> gives me the error: "No install options available for this >>> connection." >>> >>> The hypervisor being used is para-virtualized Xen, running on Debian Squeeze. >>> >>> lux-002# xm info >>> host          : lux-002 >>> release         : 2.6.32-5-xen-686 >>> version         : #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 19:46:09 UTC 2012 >>> machine         : i686 >>> nr_cpus         : 4 >>> nr_nodes        : 1 >>> cores_per_socket    : 1 >>> threads_per_core    : 2 >>> cpu_mhz         : 3200 >>> hw_caps         : >>> bfebfbff:20100000:00000000:00000180:0000641d:00000000:00000001:00000000 >>> virt_caps        : >>> total_memory      : 8191 >>> free_memory       : 1150 >>> node_to_cpu       : node0:0-3 >>> node_to_memory     : node0:1150 >>> node_to_dma32_mem    : node0:578 >>> max_node_id       : 0 >>> xen_major        : 4 >>> xen_minor        : 0 >>> xen_extra        : .1 >>> xen_caps        : xen-3.0-x86_32p >>> xen_scheduler      : credit >>> xen_pagesize      : 4096 >>> platform_params     : virt_start=0xf5800000 >>> xen_changeset      : unavailable >>> xen_commandline     : placeholder com1=9600,8n1 console=com1,vga >>> cc_compiler       : gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8) >>> cc_compile_by      : waldi >>> cc_compile_domain    : debian.org >>> cc_compile_date     : Mon Nov  7 09:18:26 CET 2011 >>> xend_config_format   : 4 >>> lux-002# libvirtd --version >>> libvirtd (libvirt) 0.8.3 >>> >> >> libvirt pokes into the host machine to try and figure out it's virt >> capabilities. So something must be going wrong there. Here's the function it >> uses in libvirt code: >> >> http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=src/xen/xen_hypervisor.c;h=b5b2328c22ccffb17f7710b3ed6064907d744215;hb=HEAD#l2563 >> >> Something must be funky or unexpected with /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities >> > > This is how it looks: > > lux-002% cat /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities > xen-3.0-x86_32p > > So, is provision through on para-virtualized Xen *supposed* to be > supported or not? > That is saying your host supports 32bit paravirt guests only. What's the output of 'virsh --connect xen:/// capabilities' ? - Cole -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list