I have Fedora 13 x86_64 on an Athlon II x2 CPU. 4GB ram, and a 500GB hard disk dedicate as VM storage via LVM. I have a script to create CentOS 5.5 VM's using HTTP install and kickstart, using the Host as the HTTP server. $NAME is passed to the script. virt-install --connect qemu:///system \ --wait 10 \ --os-variant=rhel5.4 \ --os-type=linux \ --name $NAME \ --ram 256 \ --vcpus=1 \ --disk path=/dev/KVM_Volume/$NAME,bus=virtio \ --network bridge=br0 \ --noautoconsole \ --location http://192.168.1.251/centos/5.5/os/x86_64/ \ -x "ks=http://192.168.1.251/centos/kickstart/centos-base.ks" I loop through this script 10 times: # for i in $(seq -w -s " " 1 10); do lvcreate -n VM_$i -L 10G /dev/KVM_Volume; ./centos-vm.sh VM_$i; done; Periodically, a virt-install may fail: Logical volume "VM_03" created Starting install... Retrieving file .treeinfo... | 834 B 00:00 ... Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 3.7 MB 00:00 ... Retrieving file initrd.img... | 15 MB 00:00 ... Creating domain... | 0 B 00:00 Domain installation still in progress. Waiting 10 minutes for installation to complete. ERROR operation failed: could not query memory balloon allocation Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running 'virsh start VM_03'; otherwise, please restart your installation. ERROR operation failed: could not query memory balloon allocation Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 1054, in <module> main() File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 936, in main start_time, guest.start_install) File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 1025, in do_install if guest.domain_is_shutdown(): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 930, in domain_is_shutdown dominfo = dom.info() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 766, in info if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virDomainGetInfo() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: operation failed: could not query memory balloon allocation
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