[virt-tools-list] Question about the image format

[miles kuo]

The virt-manager supports it I think. I've tried it on
virt-manager-0.8.3 and it works well as the qemu-kvm commands.

Could you paste your XML file of the VM under virt-manager here?

在 2010年4月6日 上午9:55，Dustin Xiong <x_k_123 at hotmail.com> 写道：
> Dear all:
>
> I use the command 'qemu-img create -b vm1.img -f qcow vdisk.img'
> create a new image vdisk.img. When I use virt-manager create a new VM based
> on vdisk.img, failed.
> The error as below:
>
> Unable to complete install '<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> internal error
> unable to start guest: qemu: could not open disk image
> /media/disk/images/vdisk.img
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1437, in
> do_install
>     dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 795,
> in start_install
>     return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 896,
> in _do_install
>     self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages! /libvirt.py", line 1077, in
> createLinux
>     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed',
> conn=self)
> libvirtError: internal error unable to start guest: qemu: could not open
> disk image /media/disk/images/vdisk.img
>
> But if I don't use virt-manager. I just use the command
> kvm -hda vdisk.img -m 1024 -cdrom rhel-server-5.4-i386-dvd.iso -boot d
> or kvm vdisk.img -m 1024
> The VM could running.
>
> So I want to ask whether the virt-manager support the disk created by
> 'qemu-img create -b vm1.img -f qcow vdisk.img' or not.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> -Dustin.
>
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