I am trying to work my way up the learning curve through
a forest of conflicting and mostly non-working examples
and help pages spread about the internet.
I have had no trouble getting a basic vm to build
and to then start it up. But I have utterly failed
to gain access to the machine.
The only host I have available that can run it is a
remote server. I have not got the networking side
working yet, but I can live with that for the moment
because I have thus far not been able to get access
to a simple console on the vm.
Here is the machine:
<domain type='kvm' id='2'>
<name>ubuntu</name>
<uuid>8904d893-87dc-dc1f-0219-486745a370f6</uuid>
<memory>262144</memory>
<currentMemory>262144</currentMemory>
<vcpu>1</vcpu>
<os>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-0.12'>hvm</type>
<boot dev='hd'/>
</os>
<features>
<acpi/>
</features>
<clock offset='utc'/>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<source file='/home/myhome/ubuntu-kvm/tmpl3Xutj.qcow2'/>
<target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
</disk>
<interface type='network'>
<mac address='52:54:00:be:d5:c2'/>
<source network='default'/>
<target dev='vnet0'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
</interface>
<input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
<graphics type='vnc' port='5900' autoport='yes' listen='127.0.0.1'/>
<video>
<model type='cirrus' vram='9216' heads='1'/>
</video>
<serial type='pty'>
<source path='/dev/pts/2'/>
<target port='0'/>
</serial>
<console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/2'>
<source path='/dev/pts/2'/>
<target port='0'/>
</console>
</devices>
<seclabel type='dynamic' model='apparmor'>
<label>libvirt-8904d893-87dc-dc1f-0219-486745a370f6</label>
<imagelabel>libvirt-8904d893-87dc-dc1f-0219-486745a370f6</imagelabel>
</seclabel>
</domain>
I dumped the original and added the pty stuff from an example, but
when I create it and connect to the console:
# virsh -c qemu:///system create ubuntu2.xml --console
Domain ubuntu created from ubuntu2.xml
Connected to domain ubuntu
Escape character is ^]
nothing appears and nothing I type echoes.
At least I can escape though...
I seem to have no trouble creating them, but it sure would
be nice to be able to access them.
Oh, and btw. Every time I create a VM with the ubuntu
ubuntu-vm-builder kvm hardy --mem 256 --iso /path/to/ubuntu-8.10-server-i386.iso
ubuntu-vm-builder kvm lucid --mem 256 --iso ubuntu-10.04-server-amd64.iso
It leaves a loopback disk behind that never goes away. I've
had to reboot the server once already and upped loop_max to 32
so I would be able to work longer before doing so again.
