On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 05:41:49PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/27/2012 05:15 PM, Dale Amon wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:14:41AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > >> On 02/25/2012 07:42 PM, Dale Amon wrote: > >>> I'm in the midst of an attempt to convert an > >>> old and rather large SuSE server (5 disks) into > >>> a virsh loadable VM. Has anyone else dealt with > >>> the issues of systems of this sort? I'm at the > >>> moment trying to hand construct a machine xml > >>> file for it. I managed to create one which would > >>> load but not start. > >> > >> Personally, rather than trying to hand-create XML, I've found it handy > >> to use virt-manager's ability to create a new machine XML description > >> around existing disk images. That is, use virt-manager to create a new > >> VM, but instead of telling it to install the new machine from scratch, > >> you instead tell it to attach to the pre-existing storage of the > >> eventual guest, and the OS that is installed in that storage, and it > >> generates pretty good defaults for the XML that will then boot that guest. > > > > Hmmm... this is a very remote (from me) virtual host server. > > I can get a remote xterm but it throws a fit when I try to > > run virt-manager as root over ssh. > > > > ERROR:root:Unable to initialize GTK: could not open display > > > > Suggestions? > > Run virt-manager locally, and tell the local virt-manager to connect to > the remote qemu+ssh://root@remote/system, rather than trying to run a > remote X virt-manager. (Same goes for things like 'virsh -c > qemu+ssh://remote/system' rather than ssh to remote before doing 'virsh > -c qemu:///system') virt-manager --connect qemu+ssh://root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx fails to connect. Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon I know that I have used similar commands on other machines a year ago... I checked my notes. I'm on my laptop doing this and attempting to connect to a production machine 4000 miles away, ie my options are limited and I cannot really fiddle with the server there without having a teleconference first and having everyone sign off that doing X will definitely not affect any customers... I'm sure you know the drill for production machines.
