Well that really need to be archived on the proper list, i.e.
et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com

Daniel

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 02:08:28PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:25:21AM +0900, Jun Koi wrote:
> > Yes, that was a mistake. I changed -c to --connect, and get the error
> > "Unsupported virtualization type" now. How can I fix it?
>
> I've been bitten by this very same error message in virt-install.
> Took me absolutely ages to work out that I had to use the '--hvm'
> option. It's a usability bug in virt-install, plain and simple.
> Attached is a patch which clarifies the error message.
>
> Rich.
>
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> diff -r de5bcee1e78f virtinst/ImageManager.py
> --- a/virtinst/ImageManager.py Mon Aug 18 16:33:57 2008 -0400
> +++ b/virtinst/ImageManager.py Wed Aug 20 14:08:00 2008 +0100
> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
>
> self._guest = self._capabilities.guestForOSType(self._boot_caps. type, self._boot_caps.arch)
> if self._guest is None:
> - raise PlatformMatchException(_("Unsupported virtualization type"))
> + raise PlatformMatchException(_("Unsupported virtualization type. If the host only supports full virtualization, try adding the --hvm option."))
>
> self._domain = self._guest.bestDomainType()
> self.type = self._domain.hypervisor_type

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Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:25:21AM +0900, Jun Koi wrote:
>> Yes, that was a mistake. I changed -c to --connect, and get the error
>> "Unsupported virtualization type" now. How can I fix it?
>
> I've been bitten by this very same error message in virt-install.
> Took me absolutely ages to work out that I had to use the '--hvm'
> option. It's a usability bug in virt-install, plain and simple.
> Attached is a patch which clarifies the error message.
>
> Rich.
>
>

Hmm, the patch you presented is actually for virt-image,
not virt-install. The current upstream for virt-install
should already have this resolved though, attempting to
remedy the issue in two ways:

1) If no virt type is specified, we default to the first
capabilities entry matching the host's architecture.
For xen this is PV, but for qemu (even w/ xenner
present) this defaults to hvm with qemu hostarch
binary.

2) The error message is now
"Unsupported virtualization type %foo for arch %blah"
Which will hopefully point out any errors.

That said we do need an equivalent change for ImageManager/
virt-image so I'll see about centralizing the current code
for use by both apps.

Thanks,
Cole

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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:33:57AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Hmm, the patch you presented is actually for virt-image,
> not virt-install.

Oh yes, bit stupid :-(

> 1) If no virt type is specified, we default to the first
> capabilities entry matching the host's architecture.
> For xen this is PV, but for qemu (even w/ xenner
> present) this defaults to hvm with qemu hostarch
> binary.

Yes, that sounds like the right thing to do.

Rich.

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