Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 205889
Creating xen install with xenguest-install fails
Last modified: 2013-01-09 23:03:45 EST
Description of problem: When trying to create a xen installation the xenguest-install script fails after the first question Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xen-libs-3.0.2-33 xen-3.0.2-33 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start xenguest-install 2. Select yes (or no) on first question 3. Actual results: [root@macbook ~]# xenguest-install Would you like a fully virtualized guest (yes or no)? This will allow you to run unmodified operating systems. yes Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/xenguest-install", line 375, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/xenguest-install", line 306, in main guest = xeninst.FullVirtGuest() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xeninst/FullVirtGuest.py", line 29, in __init__ XenGuest.XenGuest.__init__(self) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xeninst/XenGuest.py", line 100, in __init__ self.conn = libvirt.open(None) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 39, in open if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpen() failed') libvirt.libvirtError: virConnectOpen() failed Expected results: Additional info: Starting with xenguest-install -v gives the same result
What does /var/log/xen* show?
There is only a var/log/xen/xend.log that file is empty: [root@macbook log]# ll /var/log/xen/* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 9 18:21 /var/log/xen/xend.log Can this tool only be used when running the xen kernel? I'm not running the xen kernel currently because of bug #205892 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205892
Yes, you need to be running the Xen kernel as xenguest-install is creating xen guests, which needs the kernel. I'm closing this as notabug..
OK, but a helpful error message would be nice instead of the horrible errors messages. Maybe there is a simple check to see if you're running on a xen enabled kernel?