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RE: [Xen-users] error when creating hvm guest with virt-manager

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Subject: RE: [Xen-users] error when creating hvm guest with virt-manager
From: "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:07:09 -0400
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Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> 
> I suppose I need to apply some patch but can't find the right one.
> 
> Xen 3.2 (the packages from xen.org) on CentOS 5.1
> 
> I wanted to install my first hvm guest and wanted to use an old Suse 9.0 
> (of course, there are reasons why I wanted to use that ;-).
> 
> First problem I encountered is that virt-manager blanked out the option to 
> install from cdrom. I copied the first CD with dd to an iso image and used 
> that as an install source. This gives me the following error:
> 
> The error is "Unable to complete install 'libvirt.libvirtError 
> virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed. (xend.err 'Error 
> creating 
> domain: long() argument must be a string or a number')"
> 
> Google finds only this single article, but I don't think I hit exactly the 
> same problem: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.user/33078
> 
> The traceback I get does not touch XendDomainInfo.py, it starts in 
> create.py. Anyway, I changed the code in XendDomainInfo.py and tried again 
> with the same result. (I don't have the complete traceback on hand, 
> otherwise I would add it. If necessary I can get it again.)
> 
> Someone suggested using qemu to startup the installation. This worked, 
> indeed, (with some twists) and I can now startup a xen hvm with the 
> installed system on that disk image. So, it really looks like just some 
> bug in the creation code of virt-manager.

The fix for this is in changeset 16764

I posted the patches and xen.spec file on centos-virt for this
and the HVM localtime problem. You should find them there.

-Ross

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