Re: Boxes on Mageia

[Michael Hill <mdhillca gmail com>]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:
> 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.

Okay, added Mageia's qemu package which loads kvm module.  Next error is:

Boxes-WARNING **: wizard.vala:136: Unable to start domain: internal
error Process exited while reading console log output:
qemu-system-x86_64: -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing:
there is no option group "spice"
spice is not supported by this qemu build.

Mike