Michael Huff wrote:
> Hi. I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2/dual core processor and 2 gigs of ram running
> SXDE/87 (as far as I can tell, it's on a ufs filesystem, not zfs). I'm
> attempting to install Vista from cd and the virt-install command fails with
> the same error regardless of what I do. I'm running this from my user (not
> root) account. I'm using qemu-img to create my hard drive images.
>
> Here's the cut and paste from gnome-terminal:
>
> bash-3.2$ uname -a
> SunOS pacifica 5.11 snv_87 i86pc i386 i86xpv
> bash-3.2$ virt-install --name Vista1 -r 1024 --location /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2
> --file $HOME/guests/Vista1.img --vnc
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 657, in ?
> main()
> File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 509, in main
> conn = libvirt.open(options.connect)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/libvirt.py", line 135, in open
> if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpen() failed')
> libvirt.libvirtError: virConnectOpen() failed
>
> I have also tried using "--cdrom" instead of "--location" and "--ram" instead
> of "-r", I've also typed out the full pathname for $HOME and I've gotten the
> same error message.
>
> This doesn't seem to be vista or cd specific, as I got the same results when
> I attempted to make a windows 2003 guest:
>
> bash-3.2$ virt-install --name 2k3-1 -r 512 --location
> /export/home/user/Documents/iso/w2k3/2k3.iso --file
> /export/home/user/guests/2k3-1.img --vnc
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 657, in ?
> main()
> File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 509, in main
> conn = libvirt.open(options.connect)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/libvirt.py", line 135, in open
> if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpen() failed')
> libvirt.libvirtError: virConnectOpen() failed
>
> I've read and I'm sttumped, I have amd vt extentions and I am booting into
> dom0 (as you can see from the output of uname -a). I have no idea what is
> going wrong or how to fix it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
>
> PS apologies in advance if this is posted twice.
>
>
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Looks like you haven't configured vnc through svcprop.
James
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