On 27/04/10 03:42 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
27.04.2010 07:54, Gary Dale wrote:
Further to below, I figured I'd try a re-install using virt-manager -
something I couldn''t get working earlier. I noticed when I installed
virt-manager, it installed a whole raft of software related to the qemu
(not qemu-kvm) package.
It also seems to be recognizing qemu-kvm, but I can't get Windows XP to
install.
I'm not sure I understand what you wrote. In any way, it is
something not related to the original bugreport, so if it is
important for you file a new bug report.
The issue is that I didn't get a "connect to qemu-kvm" when I was trying
to use it earlier. I'd removed qemu since it seemed to be unnecessary to
running qemu-kvm. Right now, on the last "New VM" panel before it
launches the VM to install the OS, it gives me (under advanced options)
a choice between qemu and kvm (defaulting to kvm).
So if I have both qemu and qemu-kvm installed, I appear to able to use
virt-manger and it appears to recognize qemu-kvm. Just having qemu-kvm
installed (or more precisely, qemu-kvm installed with qemu removed)
didn't show anything to connect to.
Basically, I can connect to qemu (it won't connect to, or even
recognize, qemu-kvm - the problem I was having earlier), create a new
virtual machine (I have to pre-create the virtual disk file or it will
try to create it on my system partition instead of in my home
directory), tell it that it's a Windows XP partition then begin the
install. Unfortunately, after copying files to the virtual disk, the XP
install tries to reboot but can't find a bootable disk.
Here, perform the install of windowsXP without using virt-manager,
directly with kvm running from command line. Later on you can
"import" the guest disk image into virt-manager and it will work
fine. It's a known issue and I don't yet know who's at blame --
virt-manager or kvm.
OK. Thanks
I don't know if you can help out on that issue. But the various extra
bits that virt-manager installed made me wonder if there is something in
the qemu install (that is not in the qemu-kvm install) that could cause
the issue I am having?
As far as I know virt-manager is able to work with qemu, qemu-kvm,
xen and a few other virt. technologies. Why it "decided" to install
lots of qemu dependencies is beyong me, ask virt-manager folks about
that. Again, it is not at all related to the problem at hand.
Possibly not, but as I mentioned, I probably had some of these files in
my older Squeeze install but wouldn't have had them in my new install
where qemu-kvm wasn't running Windows XP properly. Would qemu-kvm use
them if they were installed before qemu-kvm was installed?
Just a thought. Any ideas?
Well, yes. We're getting too far from the initial problem. And
the problem itself, as I already pointed out several times, isn't
exactly clear either, it might be anything.
/mjt
I recognize that. I'm going to try the re-install of XP to see if that
cures the problem. Unfortunately that won't tell us much about the cause
of the original problem. If the fresh install works, that would
indicate, to me anyway, that the problem was with qemu-kvm being missing
something that the qemu install provides.
Thanks.
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