Hello Sudeep, Note that virt-install doesn't care that your image is already created, it overwrites it and changes the format to raw.
Take a look over this article [1], on how to pass the format of the image to virt-install. Or just qemu-img convert your raw image to qcow2. [1]: http://opennodecloud.com/documentation/howtos/kvm-guests-virt-install-examples/ Best, Valentin On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Sudeep Narayan Banerjee < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Javier, > > You are true. It is raw indeed. But I made it like qcow2! Below is the > command I executed for qcow2. > > > [oneadmin@front images]$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o > preallocation=metadata /storage/local/images/ > winserv1.qcow2 8G > Formatting '/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qow2', fmt=qcow2 size=8589934592 > encryption=off cluster_size=65536 preallocation='metadata' > > [oneadmin@front images]$ qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2 > image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2 > file format: raw > virtual size: 8.0G (8589934592 bytes) > disk size: 4.9G > > So, how to fix it?!? I have been trying to make a VM in windows for past > 10days but still not able to make it! :-( > > Regards, > Sudeep > > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Javier Fontan <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I believe that the image is not a qcow2 image but raw. You can check >> the format with: >> >> $ qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2 >> >> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Sudeep Narayan Banerjee >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Dear Sir, >> > >> > I have been trying to install Windows-7 64bit in OpenNebula. Our target >> is >> > to create a VM with Windows as OS. >> > >> > Below are the steps that I followed. But not able to "runn" the VM. >> SeLinux >> > is Disabled in both servers. >> > >> > [root@front ~]# getenforce --> Frontend >> > Disabled >> > >> > [root@nc1 ~]# getenforce --> Worker Node >> > Disabled >> > >> > [oneadmin@front ~]$ cd /var/lib/libvirt/images/ >> > >> > [oneadmin@front images]$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o >> preallocation=metadata >> > /storage/local/images/winserv1.qcow2 8G >> > Formatting '/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qow2', fmt=qcow2 >> size=8589934592 >> > encryption=off cluster_size=65536 preallocation='metadata' >> > >> > [oneadmin@front images]$ ls -lrth >> > total 5.0G >> > -rw------- 1 oneadmin oneadmin 8.0G Jul 8 18:23 win7.qcow2 >> > [oneadmin@front images]$ exit >> > >> > [root@front ~]# virt-install --prompt >> > What is the name of your virtual machine? >> > myvm7 >> > How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? >> > 1024 >> > What would you like to use as the disk (file path)? >> > /var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2 >> > How large would you like the disk (/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2) >> to be >> > (in gigabytes)? >> > 8 >> > What is the install CD-ROM/ISO or URL? >> > /home/Windows-7-x86.iso >> > >> > Starting install... >> > Allocating 'win7.qcow2' >> > | 8.0 GB 00:00 >> > Creating domain... >> > | 0 B 00:00 >> > (virt-viewer:24972): virt-viewer-DEBUG: Couldn't load configuration: >> File is >> > empty >> > >> > [oneadmin@front ~]$ oneimage create --name "win7-x86_64" --path >> > "/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2" --driver qcow2 --datastore default >> > ID: 12 >> > >> > [oneadmin@front ~]$ oneimage list >> > ID USER GROUP NAME DATASTORE SIZE TYPE PER >> STAT >> > RVMS >> > 3 oneadmin oneadmin Ubuntu-14.04_x8 default 287M OS No >> used >> > 1 >> > 12 oneadmin oneadmin win7-x86_64 default 8G OS No >> rdy >> > 0 >> > >> > [oneadmin@front ~]$ onetemplate create --name "win7" --cpu 1 --vcpu 1 >> > --memory 512 --arch x86_64 --disk "win7-x86_64" --nic "private" --vnc >> --ssh >> > ID: 11 >> > >> > [oneadmin@front ~]$ onetemplate list >> > ID USER GROUP NAME >> > REGTIME >> > 2 oneadmin oneadmin Ubuntu-14.04 06/27 >> > 02:11:28 >> > 11 oneadmin oneadmin win7 07/08 >> > 18:30:39 >> > >> > [oneadmin@front ~]$ onetemplate instantiate win7 --name myvm8 >> > VM ID: 36 >> > >> > [oneadmin@front ~]$ onevm list >> > ID USER GROUP NAME STAT UCPU UMEM HOST >> > TIME >> > 25 oneadmin oneadmin myvm2 runn 0 512M nc1 >> 11d >> > 16h14 >> > 36 oneadmin oneadmin myvm8 fail 0 0K >> 0d >> > 00h00 >> > >> > >> > ERROR from log file. >> > >> > [oneadmin@front ~]$ tail -f /var/log/one/36.log >> > >> > Tue Jul 8 18:31:48 2014 [DiM][I]: New VM state is ACTIVE. >> > Tue Jul 8 18:31:48 2014 [LCM][I]: New VM state is PROLOG. >> > Tue Jul 8 18:35:30 2014 [LCM][I]: New VM state is BOOT >> > Tue Jul 8 18:35:30 2014 [VMM][I]: Generating deployment file: >> > /var/lib/one/vms/36/deployment.0 >> > Tue Jul 8 18:35:31 2014 [VMM][I]: ExitCode: 0 >> > Tue Jul 8 18:35:31 2014 [VMM][I]: Successfully execute network driver >> > operation: pre. >> > Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: Command execution fail: cat << EOT | >> > /var/tmp/one/vmm/kvm/deploy '/var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/deployment.0' >> > 'nc1' 36 nc1 >> > Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: error: Failed to create domain from >> > /var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/deployment.0 >> > Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: error: internal error process exited >> > while connecting to monitor: qemu-kvm: -drive >> > >> file=/var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/disk.0,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=qcow2: >> > could not open disk image /var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/disk.0: Invalid >> > argument >> > Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: >> > Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][E]: Could not create domain from >> > /var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/deployment.0 >> > Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: ExitCode: 255 >> > Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: Failed to execute virtualization >> driver >> > operation: deploy. >> > Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][E]: Error deploying virtual machine: >> Could >> > not create domain from /var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/deployment.0 >> > Tue Jul 8 18:35:33 2014 [DiM][I]: New VM state is FAILED >> > >> > -- >> > Thanks & Regards, >> > Sudeep Narayan Banerjee >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Javier Fontán Muiños >> Developer >> OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple >> www.OpenNebula.org | @OpenNebula | github.com/jfontan >> > > > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > Sudeep Narayan Banerjee > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > > -- Valentin Bud http://databus.pro | [email protected]
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