[xen-discuss] Using virt-manager to install guest domains?

[Darren Reed]

On 07/07/09 06:10, Mark Johnson wrote:
>
>
> Darren Reed wrote:
>> I've got a copy of Solaris Express on DVD, installed it and tried to 
>> create a Xen guest domain using virt-manager.
>>
>> I ran into the following road block:
>>
>> - attaching storage space did not allow me to add a Normal Disk 
>> Partition. /dev/dsk/c0t2d0p0, /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s0, etc, all got 
>> rejected with an error (see below). What did work was saying 
>> /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0p0 was the File Location of the virtual disk, but 
>> that fails later...
>>
>> The errors coming out of virt-manager were:
>> Traceback(most recent call last):
>>  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py" line 327, in 
>> forward
>>    if(self.validate(notebook.get_current_page() != True):
>>  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py" line 855, in 
>> validate
>>    d = virtinst.VirtualDisk(self.get_config_disk_image(), 
>> self.get_config_disk_size() / 1024.0, spare = self.is_sparse_file())
>> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'NoneType' and 'float'
>
> virt-manager doesn't work very well in the current bits. The jds folks
> should be pushing a newer version relatively soon.
>
> What are you trying to install? I can give you the virt-install line
> for that....

What I've come up with so far is:


virt-install --paravirt --name dom1 --ram 6144 --nographics \
 --os-type=solaris \
 --network bridge=e1000g0,capped-bandwidth=200M \
 --disk path=/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s4,driver=phy
 --location /isos/osol-200906.iso


... what I'm not happy about:
location  - I want to use a DVD disc in my DVD drive, not an ISO image
disk path - how do I tell it to use an entire disk (or fdisk partition),
            not just a slice?
cpu       - I want to set the limit to 2 CPUs.

Darren