Re: [libvirt-users] New with Libvirt and having problems.

2011-08-30 Thread Kevins Thoughts
On 8/30/2011 9:14 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 08/29/2011 08:09 PM, Kevins Thoughts wrote: 1) The "-S" is keeping the system from booting This is intentional. Libvirt has to make some changes via the monitor, since qemu does not expose all functionality from the command line, so libvirt blindly

Re: [libvirt-users] New with Libvirt and having problems.

2011-08-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/29/2011 08:09 PM, Kevins Thoughts wrote: > > When I look in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/Test.log I see the VM is started > with the command (edited down to the relevant parts): > > //usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -m 1024 -smp 2 -name Test,process=qemu:Test > -nographics -boot c -drive file=/kvms/test1.img

Re: [libvirt-users] New with Libvirt and having problems.

2011-08-29 Thread Kevins Thoughts
Ah I never gave KVM or virtualization a try in Gentoo. None of my servers have X though using X11 forwarding still works. In CentOS the package is xorg-x11-xauth , looks like it may be x11-apps/xauth in Gentoo. No X anywhere in my environment . Somehow I normally manage! Does "virsh

[libvirt-users] New with Libvirt and having problems.

2011-08-29 Thread Kevins Thoughts
Hi all. I've been playing around with KVM for a bit now and have several virtual machines up and running. Having passed what I considered "first look" stage, I'm ready to start using libvirt as a manager. For reference, pre-libvirt, I have started this VM with: /kvm -net nic,model=virtio -