Re: [libvirt-users] Building & Installing on OpenSolaris

2010-04-26 Thread gary mazzaferro
Hi all, Found my own problem... mpath needs to be disabled. This is the current options for configure... ./configure without-lxc --without-qemu Now the make is broken, I don't think there is a linux/params.h in opensolaris. I was able to build under opensolaris... Any suggestions ? make[

Re: [libvirt-users] Using the host's LVM to manage virtual disks

2010-04-26 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Don Morrison @ 04/26/2010 06:21 AM: > I've been able to do this both ways with libvirt/kvm. You have to define > your logical volume as a block device. the logical volume shows up as a hard drive during the installation of the VM. the issue i am h

Re: [libvirt-users] Building & Installing on OpenSolaris

2010-04-26 Thread gary mazzaferro
Hi Daniel, Thanks for the tip. It got me a bit further. Now I'm stuck on configure looking for device mapper. I don't remember this before.. checking for DEVMAPPER... checking libdevmapper.h usability... no checking libdevmapper.h presence... no checking for libdevmapper.h... no checking for dm

[libvirt-users] Unable to switch ISO with virsh/kvm

2010-04-26 Thread Don Morrison
I'd created a VM with "virsh create" that has a CD-ROM attached Now I'd like to swap that iso out and mount a new one without taking down the guest. But it fails as follows: virsh detach-disk sles-11 sdb error: Failed to detach disk error: this functi

Re: [libvirt-users] Libvirt Compilation on MS Vista

2010-04-26 Thread Tim McLeod
Matthias, Polite enquiry on the progress of tidying up scripts to automate the MinGW/MSYS setup and libvirt compilation on Windows, if I may? Not meaning to appear impatient, but I would like to give my client some indication of when I can meet my deliverables. Many thanks... Tim -Origi

Re: [libvirt-users] Using the host's LVM to manage virtual disks

2010-04-26 Thread Don Morrison
I've been able to do this both ways with libvirt/kvm. You have to define your logical volume as a block device. I the example below (I use virsh to create the VM), I created logical volume "my_lv" in volume group "host" and was able to both install an OS into it and copy (via dd) a raw image into i

Re: [libvirt-users] Problems moving qemu machine to libvirt

2010-04-26 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 01:03:42AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a qemu-system-arm machine that I am currently starting using: > > qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -nographic \ > -hda img.qcow2 \ > -net vde,vlan=0,sock=/var/run/qemu-vde.ctl \ > -net ni

Re: [libvirt-users] Building & Installing on OpenSolaris

2010-04-26 Thread Daniel Veillard
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:40:11AM -0600, gary mazzaferro wrote: > Hi, > > I'm revisiting my libVirt install for opensolaris. I downloaded libvirt > 0.8.0.. > > This is a bit embarassing, but I forgot how to build libVirt on opensolaris. > (It's been a while) I'm currently stuck with the configu

[libvirt-users] Building & Installing on OpenSolaris

2010-04-26 Thread gary mazzaferro
Hi, I'm revisiting my libVirt install for opensolaris. I downloaded libvirt 0.8.0.. This is a bit embarassing, but I forgot how to build libVirt on opensolaris. (It's been a while) I'm currently stuck with the configure script failing to find linux kernel headers. Error: "configure: error: You m