CentOS 5.3 DomU on Intrepid

[warpig]

Hi All,

Apologies if this question has already been raised. I'm trying to install a CentOS 5.3 guest in Xen on Ubuntu 9.04. I'm using the virt-manager wizard to do this. The contents of the CentOS DVD is available via NFS. The local disk image is created successfully and then I get the following error:

Unable to complete install '<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> unknown OS type xen
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 718, in do_install
dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 926, in start_install
return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 966, in _do_install
self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 973, in createLinux
if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: unknown OS type xen
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I don't believe I'm missing any libraries on my local machine, but I could be wrong. If you need any more information, I'm happy to provide it.

Thanks,
Leigh

[Shamballajones]

I also got this error on a vanilla install of Centos 5.4.

In that case the solution appeared to be to delete the default qemu localhost in the Virtual Machine Manager and replace it with a domain0 that uses xen as the hypervisor. After that I was able to create domUs without seeing the error.