From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: a (bad) kvm story from a plain user Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:58:33 +0100 Message-ID: <20070815115833.GA31563@redhat.com> References: <46C2688D.80505@qumranet.com> <1187148384.13858.5.camel@squirrel> <20070815032935.GA17021@redhat.com> <59abf66e0708142143s68acf009h2513fafe10bd9071@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Jorge =?utf-8?Q?Luc=C3=A1ngeli?= Obes Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <59abf66e0708142143s68acf009h2513fafe10bd9071-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 01:43:58AM -0300, Jorge Luc?ngeli Obes wrote: > On 8/15/07, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 10:26:24PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 05:44 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > > Slohm Gadaburi wrote: > > > > > How can I know if the qemu I ran took advantage of the kvm module ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > No one mentioned my favorite: when kvm is in control, the title bar of > > > > the guest console window changes to "QEMU/KVM". > > > > > > > > > I ran /usr/bin/qemu as I didn't have /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu like the HOWTO > > > > > mentioned (as I didn't compiled the kvm bundle myself...). > > > > > > > > > > > > > Well, the HOWTO assumes you did all the previous steps. We should have > > > > a HOWTO/Ubuntu for distro users (but really, Ubuntu should have a gui > > > > for this). > > > > > > virt-manager isn't currently packaged for Ubuntu (even in Gutsy). If > > > there any Ubuntu devs out there, please consider packaging it! > > > > There are virt-manager packages for Debian so it shouldn't be hard to port > > them. > > Just today I was trying virt-manager and libvirt. I got this error > when creating a VM: > > Unable to complete install: 'virDomainCreateLinux() failed Cannot find > QEMU binary /usr/bin/qemu: No such file or directory' The KVM support in libvirt is just an extension to the generic QEMU support. So you have to have a plain QEMU installed, as well as the KVM-ified version. To avoid filename clashes it expects the KVM version of QEMU to be named /usr/bin/qemu-kvm. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/