Re: Boxes on Mageia

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange redhat com> wrote:
> 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.

  Ah that makes me feel much better (/me have been using everything
from git) but I think it would be better if we fix this in upstream
(libvirt?) to fix it for everyone.


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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124