Bug#583111: libvirt0 fails to create video devices and register them in the config file

2010-05-25 Thread IAN DELANEY
Package: libvirt0 Version: 0.7.6-1~bpo50+1 Severity: normal Tags: lenny *** Please type your report below this line *** Using the virt-manager supplies the options if adding 'hardware' to the vm. Normally I use this option to add storage devices. This version of libvirt and virt-manager

Bug#578173: confirm

2010-05-24 Thread IAN DELANEY
I can't resolve this bug, but I can finally use lenny 64 to full capacity in xen, which doesn't help the bug. I acquired xen-3.3.3 months ago, but couldn't manage to work my way through the missing header files to install xen-tools. After all this time, I revisited it and installed xen-3.3.3, qu

Bug#582269: virtinst virt-manager-0.8.4 fail to create a vm by import mode in xen

2010-05-19 Thread IAN DELANEY
Subject: virtinst Package: virtinst Version: 0.500.3-1 Severity: minor Tags: squeeze experimental Using virt-managger, and therefore virtinst, can't manage to create a vm in xen by the import mode. This occurs in the packages in debian and gentoo. I've made a submission to gentoo, which ca

Bug#582021:

2010-05-17 Thread IAN DELANEY
woops... To correct some entries in the post, I got the kernels mixed up in making the report. It may not matter, the end description is right, but to straighten it out, The kernel first used to boot lenny is the squeeze xen kernel, 2.6.32-bpo.4-xen The original ubuntu kernel is vmlinuz-2.6.31

Bug#581982: epiphany can't select and read email application content

2010-05-17 Thread IAN DELANEY
Package: epiphany Version: 0.7.0-4 Severity: minor Tags: squeeze *** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. *** Detected character set: us-ascii Please change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'IAN DELANEY ' as your from address. Getting status for epiphany... Main

Bug#579146:

2010-05-12 Thread IAN DELANEY
Guido, "Are paravirt CDROM installs supported by virt-manager? Where would you fetch the kernel/initramfs from? If you're using CDROM it will try to _boot_ from that CDROM which won't work with paravirt." centos, fedora and suse can do paravirt cdrom installs, Use de

Bug#579148:

2010-04-25 Thread IAN DELANEY
Guido, sure. For what it's worth, I provided the information for you to draw a conclusion. I might be puzzled by it because; three net installs all failed by the software using its standard backend config files. That's quit a failure / letdown. I didn't find / access the site, citing the si

Bug#579146: libvirt0 0.8.0-1 doesn't allow cdrom install for xen via virt-manager

2010-04-25 Thread IAN DELANEY
Package: libvirt0 Version: 0.7.6-1~bpo50+1 Severity: important nvoke virt-manager within xen. select new vm 2.Choose any system on cdrom dvd. Enter info. finish 3.There it is Actual results: See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=408783 Expected results: Install a new vm Additiona

Bug#579138: virtinst 0.500,3-1 can't do a paravirt install from a debian dvd

2010-04-25 Thread IAN DELANEY
Package: virtinst Version: 0.400.0-7 Severity: wishlist I've fianlly figured out how to enter the correct form of data to do a paravirt install from the dvd, and it's virtually useless. Of the three distros that deal with xen, only fedora will work off the dvd, and then it lacks the drivers

Bug#579082: xen-tools-3.9-4 misconfigures gnome gdm installing a lenny uest

2010-04-24 Thread IAN DELANEY
Package: xen-tools Version: 3.9-4 Severity: minor Have installed a couple of samples of lenny as a guest using xen-tools. The inital install is sensible a minimal system reaching level 3. Once installed, I then installed gnome to have a graphical lenny. Once installed, it is misconfigured.

Bug#578399: fedora

2010-04-19 Thread IAN DELANEY
The same also applies to fedora installs. I added a few symlinks to install a fedora 10, which is one version newer than xen-tools actually cators to, but the outcome I'm sure would still apply. I f you mount the images file and chroot, this is found. bash-3.2# ls / ConsoleKit-libs-0.3.0-2.fc

Bug#578399: xen-tools-3.9-4 can't install a complete, usable instance of centos

2010-04-19 Thread IAN DELANEY
Package: xen-tools Version: 3.9-4 Severity: normal Using xen-tools to create a standard install of centos results in an incomplete installation of the centos system. Running xm -create -c the centos system also failed to reach login, though it did contact the console. I tried more than one v

Bug#578173:

2010-04-19 Thread IAN DELANEY
Hi Guido, the bug has two separate parts now, the initial fault on leny (1), and a recurrence of the supposedly resolved console issue we referred to, which occured on other lenny. re the first; I've had to make severall attempts to re-invoke the bug. I did finally do so. I did an install

Bug#578173: other lenny install

2010-04-18 Thread IAN DELANEY
Another attempt yielded a slightly better output. I invoked another install in other lenny, amd_64, and this time got a log file. This is a different fault. I hope you would persevere with it to straighten lenny out comprehensively. I attempted to install a backport of python-libvirt, but it

Bug#578173: other lenny

2010-04-17 Thread IAN DELANEY
Guido, some more sobering info. I have two instances of lenny. One installed from a dvd, the other installed from a xen live cd. The first is a 64 bit lenny, standard debian, the second is a hard drive install derived from the live xen cd. As my other report indicated, I installed this live c

Bug#578173:

2010-04-17 Thread IAN DELANEY
Guido, I have a problem. I rebooted, repeated the install, and the thing completed!! Yes, it completed. lenny installed a xen vm, and not only that, it then booted up on reboot, so my bug is not a package breaker. It's still a bug, though intermittent, as gentoo would put it. It occurred t

Bug#578209: closed by Guido Günther (Need to be root)

2010-04-17 Thread IAN DELANEY
From: ow...@bugs.debian.org To: john...@hotmail.com Subject: Bug#578209 closed by Guido Günther (Need to be root) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:33:08 + This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the virtinst package: #578209: virtinst-0.400.0-7 can't

Bug#578209: virtinst-0.400.0-7 can't complete a network paravirt install via virt-manager

2010-04-17 Thread IAN DELANEY
Package: virtinst Version: 0.400.0-7 Severity: important Boot into xen environment, invoke virt-manager, select new to invoke the installation wizzards, select a system on the internet, e.g. fedora 10, complete info input, return to begin the install. Verifying install location, pulls up w

Bug#578186: closed by Guido Günther (Re: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#578186: libvirt0: Installation of a new vm within xen still fails to connect to a console)

2010-04-17 Thread IAN DELANEY
Message Attachment-- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:17:16 +0200 From: a...@sigxcpu.org To: 578186-d...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#578186: libvirt0: Installation of a new vm within xen still fails to connect to a console On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 01:47:34AM +, IAN

Bug#578186: libvirt0: Installation of a new vm within xen still fails to connect to a console

2010-04-17 Thread IAN DELANEY
Package: libvirt0 Version: 0.7.6-1~bpo50+1 Severity: serious Justification: 2 Take a system on a cdrom or dvd e.g. hardy or karmic, invoke virt-manager to manage vms, select new to invoke the wizzard installer bringing virtinst to the table, enter required info to install, full virt for a cdrom

Bug#578173: virtinst or libvirt loses contact with console during installation

2010-04-17 Thread IAN DELANEY
Package: virtinst Version: 0.400.0-7 Severity: serious Justification: 1 ok, the fiasco of installing in lenny continues. Boot into xen, take a system such as hardy or karmic on cd or dvd, put it in the drive, invole virt-manager, invoke new vm bringing virtinst into play, use the provided wizza