Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me with this, I have been trying to get a vm up and running for a while now and cant for the life of me work out why it isnt working. The errors I get arnt very helpful and im at a loss as how to debug this any further. Here is the command and output that I get...(Also nothing shows up with virsh list --all after so its starting to install then dropping out) Hope someone can help. Thanks! [root@server ~]# /usr/bin/virt-install -n test01 -r 512 --os-variant=virtio26 -l http://172.16.0.100/iso/centos-5.5/ --nographics --noautoconsole --disk path=/dev/vg_storage/test01, bus=virtio -w bridge:br0 -x "console=ttyS0 ks=http://172.16.0.100/ks/ks-vm.cfg"; -d -v Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Requesting libvirt URI default Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Received libvirt URI 'qemu:///system' Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Requesting virt method 'hvm' Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Received virt method 'hvm' Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Hypervisor name is 'qemu' Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG parse_disk: returning ('/dev/vg_storage/test01', None, None, 'disk', None, False, False, None, True, None) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Setting size for existing storage to '10.0' Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Detected storage as type 'block' Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Setting size for existing storage to '10.0' Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Detected storage as type 'block' Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Setting size for existing storage to '10.0' Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Detected storage as type 'block' Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Setting os type to 'linux' for variant 'virtio26' Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG DistroInstaller location is a network source. Starting install... Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Attempting to detect distro: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG HTTP hasFile: didn't find http://172.16.0.100/iso/centos-5.5/.treeinfo Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG HTTP hasFile: didn't find http://172.16.0.100/iso/centos-5.5/Fedora Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG HTTP hasFile: didn't find http://172.16.0.100/iso/centos-5.5/Server Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG HTTP hasFile: didn't find http://172.16.0.100/iso/centos-5.5/Client Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG HTTP hasFile: didn't find http://172.16.0.100/iso/centos-5.5/RedHat Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Detected a CentOS distro Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Fetching URI: http://172.16.0.100/iso/centos-5.5/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Saved file to /var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-vmlinuz.MKBsh1 Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 1.9 MB 00:00 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Fetching URI: http://172.16.0.100/iso/centos-5.5/images/pxeboot/initrd.img Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Saved file to /var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-initrd.img.T2dfhc Retrieving file initrd.img... | 7.7 MB 00:00 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:45:05 DEBUG Creating guest from: <domain type='qemu'> <name>test01</name> <currentMemory>524288</currentMemory> <memory>524288</memory> <uuid>5cbb288b-d9f7-bae4-0d05-9157553f53fe</uuid> <os> <type arch='x86_64'>hvm</type> <kernel>/var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-vmlinuz.oddwKg</kernel> <initrd>/var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-initrd.img.POxZ5X</initrd> <cmdline>method=http://172.16.0.100/iso/centos-5.5/ console=ttyS0 ks=http://172.16.0.100/ks/ks-vm.cfg</cmdline> </os> <features> <acpi/><apic/><pae/> </features> <clock offset="utc"/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>destroy</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <vcpu>1</vcpu> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <console type='pty'/> <disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' cache='none'/> <source dev='/dev/vg_storage/test01'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> </disk> <interface type='bridge'> <source bridge='br0'/> <mac address='54:52:00:66:25:22'/> </interface> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> </devices> </domain> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:44:48 DEBUG Removing /var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-vmlinuz.oddwKg Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:44:48 DEBUG Removing /var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-initrd.img.POxZ5X Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:44:48 ERROR internal error Domain ims-gl-lin01g01 didn't show up Domain installation may not have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running 'virsh start test01'; otherwise, please restart your installation. Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:44:48 ERROR internal error Domain test01 didn't show up Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 889, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 751, in main start_time, guest.start_install) File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 813, in do_install dom = install_func(conscb, progresscb, wait=(not wait)) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 541, in start_install return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 633, in _do_install self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 974, in createLinux if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self) libvirtError: internal error Domain ims-gl-lin01g01 didn't show up
