Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 458734
Can't create virtual machine guest
Last modified: 2013-01-09 23:46:21 EST
Description of problem: Unable to create/install/run guest operating systems. Running on AMD Phenom X4 (Barcelona) with 4GB memory. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 9 X86-64 Virtual Machine Manager QEMO, fully updated How reproducible: Every Time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Virtual Machine Manager 2. Start localhost qemu 3. Select "new" 4. Accept fully virtualized. X86_64, qemu 5. Select OS_type = Linux, OS_Variant = Generic 2.6.x kernel (note: other choices yield same result) 6. Install from DVD, "Fedora 9 x86_64 DVD" (same DVD that was used to install bare metal OS on this machine) 7. Simple File, 10,000MB 8. Virtual Network (default) 9. VM MAX memory 512 MB (default) VCPUs: 1 (default) 10. select FINISH 11. After storage allocation completes, message box pops up saying "Unable to complete install: 'virDomainCreateLinux() failed internal error Timed out while reading monitor startup output'" 12. select CLOSE 13. select FINISH again from "Create a new virtual system" box 14. Virtual machine is created with blue "Welcome to Fedora 9" startup screen 15. Can't select menu choice with mouse. Press 'enter' to install F9 16. Select language defaults. 17. When you get to the screen looking for installation media, receive "Fedora disk not found in any of your cdrom drives" message Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Complete error message from step 11: unable to complete install '<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> virDomainCreateLinux() failed internal error Timed out while reading monitor startup output Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 651, in do_install dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 845, in start_install return self._do_install(consolecb, meter) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 866, in _do_install self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 841, in createLinux if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self) libvirtError: virDomainCreateLinux() failed internal error Timed out while reading monitor startup output '
Did you enable SELinux?
SELinux is set to permissive mode. I've had problems with SELinux and virtulization in the past, so one of the first things I did was to set it to permissive mode. I am also seeing this problem with Fedora 10.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 453491 ***