2010/10/4 Stanley, Jon [Tech] <Jon.Stanley@xxxxxx>: > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Matthias Bolte [mailto:matthias.bolte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >>Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 6:03 AM >>To: Stanley, Jon [Tech] >>Cc: libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx >>Subject: Re: virt-xml-validate b0rked? >> >>But your validation errors refer to the arch attribute of the os >>element, so you're probably having a different problem. >> >>RHEL 5.5 comes with libvirt 0.6.3, latest version is 0.8.4. Maybe the >>problem has already be fixed in a newer version. > > After opening a support case, they had me replace 'rhel5.4.0' in the type element with 'pc' and it seemed to work well. I've attached the XML at any rate. > > Yes, thats the problem. In your libvirt version "rhel5.4.0" is not allowed as machine attribute value by the domain XML schema. Until libvirt 0.7.6 the machine attribute was expected to have a value out of a small predefined set ("xenfv", "pc" or "isapc" for arch="x86_64"). Since 0.7.6 the machine attribute can contain basically any value. Matthias