[virt-tools-list] Provision through virt-manager not supported on para-virtualized Xen?

[Cheer Xiao]

Hi all,

I was setting up libvirt and virt-manager for managing Xen VMs. But
when I hit "New" in virt-manager to provision a new VM, virt-manager
gives me the error: "No install options available for this
connection."

The hypervisor being used is para-virtualized Xen, running on Debian Squeeze.

lux-002# xm info
host                   : lux-002
release                : 2.6.32-5-xen-686
version                : #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 19:46:09 UTC 2012
machine                : i686
nr_cpus                : 4
nr_nodes               : 1
cores_per_socket       : 1
threads_per_core       : 2
cpu_mhz                : 3200
hw_caps                :
bfebfbff:20100000:00000000:00000180:0000641d:00000000:00000001:00000000
virt_caps              :
total_memory           : 8191
free_memory            : 1150
node_to_cpu            : node0:0-3
node_to_memory         : node0:1150
node_to_dma32_mem      : node0:578
max_node_id            : 0
xen_major              : 4
xen_minor              : 0
xen_extra              : .1
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_32p
xen_scheduler          : credit
xen_pagesize           : 4096
platform_params        : virt_start=0xf5800000
xen_changeset          : unavailable
xen_commandline        : placeholder com1=9600,8n1 console=com1,vga
cc_compiler            : gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8)
cc_compile_by          : waldi
cc_compile_domain      : debian.org
cc_compile_date        : Mon Nov  7 09:18:26 CET 2011
xend_config_format     : 4
lux-002# libvirtd --version
libvirtd (libvirt) 0.8.3

I manage the VMs using my local laptop, running latest Archlinux and
latest virt-manager.

blackie% uname -a
Linux blackie 3.2.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 26 08:40:20 CET 2012
x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6670 @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel
GNU/Linux
blackie% libvirtd --version
libvirtd (libvirt) 0.9.9
blackie% virt-manager --version
0.9.0

Another perhaps related issue: when I try to provision through
virt-install, I always run into this:

blackie% virt-install --connect xen+ssh://root@lux-002
ERROR    Must be root to create Xen guests
blackie% virt-install --version
0.600.0

Strange enough, since I'm connecting with root identity. It seems that
only with root identity on local machine can I do virt-install... is
this a bug?

-- 
Regards,
Cheer Xiao aka. xiaq