There is a ticket (#481105) relating this issue in pkg-xen-devel. If the pkg-xen-devel team didn't fix it will be necessary fix it in virtinst package. Guido, what you think about this suggestion? I can do the patch to fix it.
Cheers, On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Laurent Léonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: libvirt0 > Severity: normal > > --- Please enter the report below this line. --- > I get this error message when I try to create a new full virtualized machine > with Virt-manager : > > Unable to complete install: 'virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation > failed: (xend.err 'Error creating domain: Kernel image does not > exist: /usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader')' > > Unable to complete install '<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> > virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: (xend.err 'Error > creating domain: Kernel image does not exist: /usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader') > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 651, in > do_install > dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter) > File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/Guest.py", line 895, in > start_install > return self._do_install(consolecb, meter) > File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/Guest.py", line 916, in > _do_install > self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 833, in createLinux > if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', > conn=self) > libvirtError: virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: > (xend.err 'Error creating domain: Kernel image does not > exist: /usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader') > ' > > The path /usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader seems to be inexistant in Debian Lenny > Xen packaging. I didn't find the string "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" in the > virt-manager package so I suppose the problem comes from libvirt. > > With a "cd /usr/lib && ln -s xen-default xen" it corrects the problem. > > --- System information. --- > Architecture: i386 > Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 > > Debian Release: lenny/sid > 1001 testing security.debian.org > 1001 testing ftp.fr.debian.org > > --- Package information. --- > Depends (Version) | Installed > ===============================-+-============= > libc6 (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-10 > libgnutls26 (>= 2.2.0-0) | 2.2.5-1 > libsasl2-2 | 2.1.22.dfsg1-20 > libxenstore3.0 | 3.2.1-1 > libxml2 (>= 2.6.27) | 2.6.32.dfsg-2 > > > -- > Laurent Léonard > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-libvirt-maintainers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-libvirt-maintainers > > -- Marco Sinhoreli