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

[Cole Robinson]

On 02/02/2012 10:53 AM, Cheer Xiao wrote:
> 2012/2/2 Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com>:
>> ... [snip] ...
>>
>> Okay, libvirt is detecting things correctly. So why is virt-manager confused?
>> Using that capabilities output works for me.
>>
>> What virt-manager version are you using? Can you run virt-manager with
>> --debug, connect to xen, open the 'new vm' wizard that shows the error, and
>> post the debug output here?
> 
> The ouput is pasted. I also made a screenshot and uploaded to [1]. And
> another unrelated question: does the output says virt-manager uses HAL
> for physical network interface management? I suppose HAL is
> obsolete...
> 
> blackie% virt-manager --version
> 0.9.0
> blackie% virt-manager --debug
> 2012-02-02 23:49:04,992 (cli:71): virt-manager startup
> 2012-02-02 23:49:04,992 (virt-manager:292): Launched as:
> /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py --debug
> 2012-02-02 23:49:04,993 (virt-manager:293): GTK version: (2, 24, 9)
> 2012-02-02 23:49:04,993 (virt-manager:294): virtManager import:
> <module 'virtManager' from
> '/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/__init__.py'>
> 2012-02-02 23:49:05,116 (keyring:30): gnomekeyring bindings not
> installed, no keyring support
> 2012-02-02 23:49:05,391 (engine:555): No inspection thread because
> libguestfs is too old, not available, or libvirt is not thread safe.
> 2012-02-02 23:49:05,396 (engine:346): About to connect to uris
> ['xen+ssh://lux-003/', 'xen+ssh://major/', 'xen+ssh://lux-002/',
> 'qemu:///system']
> 2012-02-02 23:49:05,555 (engine:471): window counter incremented to 1
> 2012-02-02 23:49:14,633 (connection:954): Scheduling background open
> thread for xen+ssh://lux-002/
> 2012-02-02 23:49:14,633 (connection:1140): Background 'open
> connection' thread is running
> 2012-02-02 23:49:16,082 (connection:1168): Background open thread
> complete, scheduling notify
> 2012-02-02 23:49:16,082 (connection:1173): Notifying open result
> 2012-02-02 23:49:18,120 (connection:1180): xen+ssh://lux-002/ capabilities:
> <capabilities>
> 
>   <host>
>     <cpu>
>       <arch>i686</arch>
>       <features>
>         <pae/>
>       </features>
>     </cpu>
>     <migration_features>
>       <live/>
>       <uri_transports>
>         <uri_transport>xenmigr</uri_transport>
>       </uri_transports>
>     </migration_features>
>     <topology>
>       <cells num='1'>
>         <cell id='0'>
>           <cpus num='4'>
>             <cpu id='0'/>
>             <cpu id='1'/>
>             <cpu id='2'/>
>             <cpu id='3'/>
>           </cpus>
>         </cell>
>       </cells>
>     </topology>
>   </host>
> 
>   <guest>
>     <os_type>xen</os_type>
>     <arch name='i686'>
>       <wordsize>32</wordsize>
>       <emulator>/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm</emulator>
>       <machine>xenpv</machine>
>       <domain type='xen'>
>       </domain>
>     </arch>
>     <features>
>       <pae/>
>     </features>
>   </guest>
> 
> </capabilities>
> 
> 2012-02-02 23:49:20,336 (connection:514): Connection doesn't seem to
> support interface APIs. Skipping all interface polling.
> 2012-02-02 23:49:27,777 (connection:570): Connection managed save support: False
> 2012-02-02 23:49:28,877 (halhelper:133): Unable to connect to HAL to
> list network devices: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The
> name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
> 2012-02-02 23:49:28,877 (connection:157): Libvirt version does not
> support physical interface listing
> 2012-02-02 23:49:28,879 (connection:200): Using libvirt API for
> mediadev enumeration
> 2012-02-02 23:49:55,510 (create:832): Guest type set to os_type=xen,
> arch=i686, dom_type=xen
> 
> 1. http://ftp.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/xiaqs/screenshot-new-vm.png
> 


Okay, none of that indicates why it isn't working. I can't reproduce using
your capabilities output and virt-manager 0.9.0 either (though I hacked it in
so I could have missed a detail).

Can you try with current upstream?

git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/virt-manager.git
git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/python-virtinst.git
cd python-virtinst
python setup.py build
cd ../virt-manager
./autogen.sh && ./configure && make -j4

# Then after you can launch virt-manager with
PYTHONPATH=../python-virtinst python src/virt-manager.py --debug

See if you can reproduce, and if so please provide debug output and we can go
from there.

- Cole