Bug 218807
Summary: | Xen Virtual Machine Manager fails to create Virtual Machine | ||||||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Douglas Furlong <bugzilla_rhn> | ||||
Component: | xen | Assignee: | Daniel Berrangé <berrange> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 6 | CC: | bstein, katzj, xen-maint | ||||
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Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2006-12-07 17:49:30 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Douglas Furlong
2006-12-07 16:52:45 UTC
The same error message appears to be generated when attempting to create the Virtual Machine as a file on the existing file system, or an unformated LVM Volume. The 'Invalid argument' method either means you tried to boot a bare-metal kernel, or a non-PAE enabled kernel. What OS are you trying to install ? Please attach the contents of /root/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log from immediately after you get this message. Heyah I am trying to install FC6 i386. I've attached the file requested. Created attachment 143072 [details]
Virt Manager Log
You can't install a 32-bit paravirt guest, on a 64-bit host with Xen - the HyperVisor does not support the mixed arch in paravirt mode. If you want to run mixed architecture like that, you'll need to do a fully-virt / HVM install of the 32-bit guest. BTW, quick timesaving tip wrt...
> Installation to a LVM Volume created specifically for the task (preformated as
ext3).
There is no need to pre-format the partition in Dom0 - you can simply create the
bare logical volume. When anaconda runs in the guest OS installer it will
partition the LV, and format it as needed.
Ahhh, okay. However, the fully-virt option is grayed out, due to lack of support. When I was saying what I was doing, it suddenly dawned on me that it may be a slight issue. Sorry for the wasted time. Though, is it not possible for a more informative error? The problem is that XenD currently only gives back 'Invalid argument' when creation fails. We're actively working with upstream Xen developers to get significantly improved error reporting incorporated into XenD, which would let us tell user exactly what went wrong. |