[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#455998: Bug#455998: virt-manager can't create a new virtual machine

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:42:53AM +0000, Guido Guenther wrote:
> Hi,
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 08:40:39AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > First, I can't check the ???Use hardware acceleration???, while I have a Core2Duo
> > wich supports it. Maybe it's a limitation in qemu, I don't know, but couldn't
> > find information.
> When you run as user (qemu://session) you need the permissions on
> /dev/kvm. Can you run kvm as regular user without virt-manager?

Ha! I didn't know about kvm. kvm_intel wasn't even loaded. Now I can check the
hardware accel.
> 
> > Then, when trying a really simple vm (debian etch amd64), I can't select how I
> > want the network (and I can't create a network if I'm not running as root but
> > this deserves another bug report, as it doesn't work anyway)
> You can only user user networking when running as regular user. Please
> see the libvirt documentation (libvirt-doc).

Thanks, I'll have a look at the doc :)
> 
> > Finally, at the summary step, I try to click ???Finish??? to create the vm, but
> > there's a popup saying ???Unable to complete install: "NoneType' object has no
> > attribute 'setup"???
> > 
> > Then details:
> > 
> > Unable to complete install 'exceptions.AttributeError 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'setup'
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 616, in do_install
> >     dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
> >   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/virtinst/Guest.py", line 724, in start_install
> >     return self._do_install(consolecb, meter)
> >   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/virtinst/Guest.py", line 736, in _do_install
> >     self._create_devices(meter)
> >   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/virtinst/Guest.py", line 644, in _create_devices
> >     nic.setup(self.conn)
> > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'setup'
> > '
> > 
> > And I can't do anything else then canceling creation.
> This indeed is a bug in virt-manager. I'll have a look.

Thanks

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Yves-Alexis