On 14/06/12 04:26 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
On 15.06.2012 00:10, Gary Dale wrote:
I finally bit the bullet to try a fresh install from the command line. After
much gnashing of teeth, the command line I came up with is:
virt-install -n ghostwheel --cpu kvm64 -c
"/home/garydale/Downloads/WindowsXPPro64.iso" --os-variant=winxp64 --disk
path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/ghostwheel.img,size=20,format=raw --controller=sata
--ram=1024 --graphics vnc -v
virt-install is difficult thing, you can't really control qemu-kvm using it.
Also, --controller=sata is unlikely to work with qemu-kvm 1.0.
Please try something much simpler. Like this:
qemu-img create ghostwheel.img 20G<= this will zero-out the file if it exists.
kvm -cdrom WindowsXPPro64.iso -drive file=ghostwheel.img,cache=unsafe -m 1G
-cpu qemu64
(it will open an X window with guest console. Ofcourse it needs permissions to
access /dev/kvm, but this is trivial to achieve, just add yourself to kvm
group).
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BTW: I also tried to create a fresh virtual machine using virt-manager and failed. I get
"Uncaught error validating install parameters: 'NoneType' object has no attribute
'set_parent'" when I try to create any Windows XP virtual machine.
This is a bug in virt-manager/libvirt.
Thanks,
/mjt
Thanks. I'm actually trying another virt-installer install using qemu64
instead of kvm64 and it has progressed to the "Installing windows"
stage, but seems to be taking a long time with no progress. I know it
hasn't hung because the message on the right side of the panel changes
from time to time and the lights along the bottom-right also keep
cycling through their loop.
I'll give it a while longer before giving up.
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