On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:05:09AM +0100, Michael Menge wrote: > Dear list, > > I try to manage my kvm environment from one virtual server with > virt-manager. Virt-manager accesses the kvm-hypervisors with ssh. > > I discovered one problem creating new virtual servers: > > ------- > A hypervisor is not running. For kvm, load the kvm kernel modules. > If you want to run xen, reboot and load the xen kernel. > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 661, in > show_create > create = vmmCreate(virtman=True,key=0) > File > "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/vminstall/gtk/interface.py", > line 120, in __init__ > raise HypervisorError(HypervisorError.E_NO_HYPERVISOR) > HypervisorError: A hypervisor is not running. For kvm, load the kvm > kernel modules. If you want to run xen, reboot and load the xen > kernel. > ------- > > The error message is correct, as the management-server is a virtual server > and there is no hypervisor running. But as i wanted to create the vm > on the remote server. The vminstall script should check the remote server > and not the local server virt-manager is running on. > > Is this a known bug? Is ist fied in recent versions? > > I am using SLES 11 which uses old versions, libvirt-python 0.7.6-1.27.5, > virt-manager 0.8.4-1.7.11, virt-utils 1.1.3-1.3.3, libvirt 0.7.6-1.27.5, > virt-viewer 0.2.0-1.5.65, vm-install 0.4.32-0.3.6 It's quite an old version of libvirt, but I don't think that matters. Is virt-manager using a remote URI? Try doing: virsh -c <remote-URI> capabilities Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
