2012/2/2 Cole Robinson <crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On 02/02/2012 08:05 AM, Cheer Xiao wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I was setting up libvirt and virt-manager for managing Xen VMs. But >> when I hit "New" in virt-manager to provision a new VM, virt-manager >> gives me the error: "No install options available for this >> connection." >> >> The hypervisor being used is para-virtualized Xen, running on Debian Squeeze. >> >> lux-002# xm info >> host : lux-002 >> release : 2.6.32-5-xen-686 >> version : #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 19:46:09 UTC 2012 >> machine : i686 >> nr_cpus : 4 >> nr_nodes : 1 >> cores_per_socket : 1 >> threads_per_core : 2 >> cpu_mhz : 3200 >> hw_caps : >> bfebfbff:20100000:00000000:00000180:0000641d:00000000:00000001:00000000 >> virt_caps : >> total_memory : 8191 >> free_memory : 1150 >> node_to_cpu : node0:0-3 >> node_to_memory : node0:1150 >> node_to_dma32_mem : node0:578 >> max_node_id : 0 >> xen_major : 4 >> xen_minor : 0 >> xen_extra : .1 >> xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_32p >> xen_scheduler : credit >> xen_pagesize : 4096 >> platform_params : virt_start=0xf5800000 >> xen_changeset : unavailable >> xen_commandline : placeholder com1=9600,8n1 console=com1,vga >> cc_compiler : gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8) >> cc_compile_by : waldi >> cc_compile_domain : debian.org >> cc_compile_date : Mon Nov 7 09:18:26 CET 2011 >> xend_config_format : 4 >> lux-002# libvirtd --version >> libvirtd (libvirt) 0.8.3 >> > > libvirt pokes into the host machine to try and figure out it's virt > capabilities. So something must be going wrong there. Here's the function it > uses in libvirt code: > > http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=src/xen/xen_hypervisor.c;h=b5b2328c22ccffb17f7710b3ed6064907d744215;hb=HEAD#l2563 > > Something must be funky or unexpected with /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities > This is how it looks: lux-002% cat /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities xen-3.0-x86_32p So, is provision through on para-virtualized Xen *supposed* to be supported or not? >> I manage the VMs using my local laptop, running latest Archlinux and >> latest virt-manager. >> >> blackie% uname -a >> Linux blackie 3.2.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 26 08:40:20 CET 2012 >> x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6670 @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel >> GNU/Linux >> blackie% libvirtd --version >> libvirtd (libvirt) 0.9.9 >> blackie% virt-manager --version >> 0.9.0 >> >> Another perhaps related issue: when I try to provision through >> virt-install, I always run into this: >> >> blackie% virt-install --connect xen+ssh://root@lux-002 >> ERROR Must be root to create Xen guests >> blackie% virt-install --version >> 0.600.0 >> > > That's a virt-install bug fixed in 0.600.1 which was released a couple days > ago. Probably won't solve your 'no install options' problem though. Got it. Thanks for the quick reply! -- Regards, Cheer Xiao aka. xiaq
