Re: Boxes on Mageia

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 04:53:45PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange redhat com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 10:27:28AM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 04:57:47PM -0500, Michael Hill wrote:
> >> > I'm still attempting to get my jhbuild-on-opensuse working
> >>
> >> There are boxes RPM in the OBS (and maybe in some repos), maybe they could
> >> be useful.
> >>
> >> > (still
> >> > getting the livbirt/qemu error), but on another machine I've installed
> >> > Mageia where Olav's great packaging effort makes installation so much
> >> > simpler.  Responding to assorted errors I've found I needed to install
> >> > libvirt-utils (and set up libvirtd to start automatically), as well as
> >> > qemu-img.  Now when I select an iso file, I seem to get stuck here:
> >> >
> >> > Boxes-WARNING **: wizard.vala:136: Failed to create domain: unknown OS type hvm
> >>
> >> This generally happens when libvirt fails to start qemu, maybe you'll find
> >> something in libvirt logs. I think libvirtd has an option to tell you where
> >> it's logging to.
> >
> > That means that there are not valid virtualization emulators installed
> > on the host. ie, you have forgotten to install 'qemu-kvm' or equivalent
> > RPM. You can check this with 'virsh capabilities' - make sure that
> > command shows at least one <guest> section corresponding to your
> > KVM install.
> 
>   And you need to manually insmod/modprobe the relevant KVM kernel
> modules (which is something we really should solve ASAP).

At least on Fedora / RHEL there should not be any need to manually
do any modprobing. udev rules / RPM %post scripts should be taking
care of this automatically already.

Daniel
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