Re: problems creating VMs from remote

[Michael Menge <michael.menge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> 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?

All other actions (starting, stopping, live migrate and viewing works fine
form the management-server.

>  Try doing:
>
>   virsh -c <remote-URI> capabilities

/root# virsh -c "qemu+ssh://root@hpb020101/system" capabilities
<capabilities>

  <host>
    <cpu>
      <arch>x86_64</arch>
      <model>core2duo</model>
      <topology sockets='4' cores='4' threads='1'/>
      <feature name='lahf_lm'/>
      <feature name='rdtscp'/>
      <feature name='pdpe1gb'/>
      <feature name='popcnt'/>
      <feature name='dca'/>
      <feature name='xtpr'/>
      <feature name='cx16'/>
      <feature name='tm2'/>
      <feature name='est'/>
      <feature name='vmx'/>
      <feature name='ds_cpl'/>
      <feature name='pbe'/>
      <feature name='tm'/>
      <feature name='ht'/>
      <feature name='ss'/>
      <feature name='acpi'/>
      <feature name='ds'/>
    </cpu>
    <migration_features>
      <live/>
      <uri_transports>
        <uri_transport>tcp</uri_transport>
      </uri_transports>
    </migration_features>
    <topology>
      <cells num='2'>
        <cell id='0'>
          <cpus num='8'>
            <cpu id='1'/>
            <cpu id='2'/>
            <cpu id='5'/>
            <cpu id='7'/>
            <cpu id='9'/>
            <cpu id='10'/>
            <cpu id='13'/>
            <cpu id='15'/>
          </cpus>
        </cell>
        <cell id='1'>
          <cpus num='8'>
            <cpu id='0'/>
            <cpu id='3'/>
            <cpu id='4'/>
            <cpu id='6'/>
            <cpu id='8'/>
            <cpu id='11'/>
            <cpu id='12'/>
            <cpu id='14'/>
          </cpus>
        </cell>
      </cells>
    </topology>
  </host>

  <guest>
    <os_type>hvm</os_type>
    <arch name='i686'>
      <wordsize>32</wordsize>
      <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
      <machine>pc-0.12</machine>
      <machine canonical='pc-0.12'>pc</machine>
      <machine>pc-0.11</machine>
      <machine>pc-0.10</machine>
      <machine>isapc</machine>
      <machine>mac</machine>
      <domain type='qemu'>
      </domain>
      <domain type='kvm'>
        <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
      </domain>
    </arch>
    <features>
      <cpuselection/>
      <pae/>
      <nonpae/>
      <acpi default='on' toggle='yes'/>
      <apic default='on' toggle='no'/>
    </features>
  </guest>

  <guest>
    <os_type>hvm</os_type>
    <arch name='x86_64'>
      <wordsize>64</wordsize>
      <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
      <machine>pc-0.12</machine>
      <machine canonical='pc-0.12'>pc</machine>
      <machine>pc-0.11</machine>
      <machine>pc-0.10</machine>
      <machine>isapc</machine>
      <machine>mac</machine>
      <domain type='qemu'>
      </domain>
      <domain type='kvm'>
        <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
      </domain>
    </arch>
    <features>
      <cpuselection/>
      <acpi default='on' toggle='yes'/>
      <apic default='on' toggle='no'/>
    </features>
  </guest>

</capabilities>




   Michael Menge




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