Re: failed: Could not start storage pool: cannot open directory: ... No such file or directory

[George <oVirt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kaushal,

"Corporate wants you to find the difference"

[--location  ]/var/lib/libvirt/isos/ubuntu-20.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso

# ls -l /var/lib/libvirt/isos/

/var/lib/libvirt/isos/[-rw-r--r--. 1 qemu qemu 1331691520 Feb 23  2022 ]ubuntu-20.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso

"They are the same"

I used virt-manager more than the command line, so please excuse me as I believe my suggestion below is wrong.

What happens if you use "virsh vol-list isos"  (assuming your storage pool that contains ubuntu-20.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso is called isos).

I would expect something like:

# virsh vol-list isos

ubuntu-20.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso               /var/lib/libvirt/isos/ubuntu-20.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso

However when I did a bit of searching on the Internet, I found the following which sounds more like your issue.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/789358/virt-install-using-location-with-iso-image-no-longer-working

--location '/path_to_isos/CentOS-7-x86_64-NetInstall-2003.iso',initrd=isolinux/initrd.img,kernel=isolinux/vmlinuz \

The key here is the additional parameters on the location specifying vmlinuz as kernel and initrd.img. To find the path within the iso I've use it the isoinfo command as follows:

$ isoinfo -J -i '/path_to_isos/CentOS-7-x86_64-NetInstall-2003.iso' -l


https://www.wpdiaries.com/ubuntu-on-kvm/

Run in the terminal:
...
--location /var/lib/libvirt/images/ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso,kernel=casper/vmlinuz,initrd=casper/initrd \
...
where
...
--location – path to the local .iso file (or a distro install URL). Also, we set kernel and initrd here (we got values for them in section 1).

George.

On Saturday, 14-01-2023 at 03:01 Kaushal Shriyan wrote:

Hi,

# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)
#virt-install --version

1.5.0

#

# ls -l /var/lib/libvirt/isos/
total 8302356
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4712300544 Aug 31  2021 CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2009.iso
-rw-r--r--. 1 qemu qemu  990904320 Aug 11  2021 ubuntu-18.04.5-live-server-amd64.iso
-rw-r--r--. 1 qemu qemu 1331691520 Feb 23  2022 ubuntu-20.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso
-rw-r--r--. 1 qemu qemu 1466714112 Jun 28  2022 ubuntu-22.04-live-server-amd64.iso
#

virt-install --name demoreactui --ram 8096 --disk path=/linuxkvmguestosdisk/demoreactui.img,size=20 --vcpus 2 --os-variant ubuntu20.04 --network bridge=br0 --graphics none --console pty,target_type=serial --location /var/lib/libvirt/isos/ubuntu-20.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso,kernel=casper/vmlinuz,initrd=casper/initrd --extra-args 'console=ttyS0,115200n8 serial'

ERROR    Error validating install location: Validating install media '/var/lib/libvirt/isos/ubuntu-20.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso,kernel=casper/vmlinuz,initrd=casper/initrd' failed: Could not start storage pool: cannot open directory '/var/lib/libvirt/isos/ubuntu-20.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso,kernel=casper/vmlinuz,initrd=casper': No such file or directory

Any clue and I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Kaushal