On 15.06.2012 00:10, Gary Dale wrote: > I finally bit the bullet to try a fresh install from the command line. After > much gnashing of teeth, the command line I came up with is: > > virt-install -n ghostwheel --cpu kvm64 -c > "/home/garydale/Downloads/WindowsXPPro64.iso" --os-variant=winxp64 --disk > path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/ghostwheel.img,size=20,format=raw > --controller=sata --ram=1024 --graphics vnc -v
virt-install is difficult thing, you can't really control qemu-kvm using it. Also, --controller=sata is unlikely to work with qemu-kvm 1.0. Please try something much simpler. Like this: qemu-img create ghostwheel.img 20G <= this will zero-out the file if it exists. kvm -cdrom WindowsXPPro64.iso -drive file=ghostwheel.img,cache=unsafe -m 1G -cpu qemu64 (it will open an X window with guest console. Ofcourse it needs permissions to access /dev/kvm, but this is trivial to achieve, just add yourself to kvm group). [] > BTW: I also tried to create a fresh virtual machine using virt-manager and > failed. I get "Uncaught error validating install parameters: 'NoneType' > object has no attribute 'set_parent'" when I try to create any Windows XP > virtual machine. This is a bug in virt-manager/libvirt. Thanks, /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
