[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#479787: virt-manager: Fails to create a HVM Windows XP machine

[Guido Günther]

Hi Marco,
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:57:33PM -0300, Marco Sinhoreli wrote:
> Package: virt-manager
> Version: 0.5.4-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Unable to complete install '<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error 
> creating domain: long() argument must be a string or a number, not 'NoneType'")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 651, in do_install
>     dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/Guest.py", line 895, in start_install
>     return self._do_install(consolecb, meter)
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/Guest.py", line 916, in _do_install
>     self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 833, in createLinux
>     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
> libvirtError: virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error creating domain: long() argument must be a string 
> or a number, not 'NoneType'")
> '
Any success in tracking this down? It seems libvirt is passing crap to
xend. Could you have a look how the virDomanCreatLInux call looks like?
Running this with LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 set might give a hint.
 -- Guido