Bug 699886

Summary: virt-install fails with ERROR Unable to create cgroup for $domain: No such device or address
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Javier Ramirez <javilinux>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: aquini, berrange, clalance, crobinso, itamar, jforbes, laine, veillard, virt-maint
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Description Javier Ramirez 2011-04-26 20:13:39 UTC 
Description of problem:

Can not initate a virtual machine installation using virt-install

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Distribution:

Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)

Kernel:

Linux sombrerorojo 2.6.38.2-9.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 30 16:55:57 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Packages:

python-virtinst-0.500.6-2.fc15.noarch
libvirt-client-0.8.8-4.fc15.x86_64
libvirt-0.8.8-4.fc15.x86_64
libvirt-python-0.8.8-4.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. virt-install --name Centos56 --ram 512 --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/Centos56.img,size=10 --cdrom /home/jramirez/Downloads/isos/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-netinstall.iso

  
Actual results:
Fail with the following error:

Starting install...
ERROR    Unable to create cgroup for Centos56: No such device or address
Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
If it was, you can restart your domain by running:
  virsh --connect qemu:///system start XP
otherwise, please restart your installation.


Expected results:

virt-install to initiate the installation

Additional info:
Comment 1 Javier Ramirez 2011-04-26 20:20:09 UTC 
Hi,

Actually I discovered that restarting libvirtd solves the issue, so probably is related to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666130

Regards.
Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2011-04-27 13:01:25 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 678555 ***