I just upgraded my desktop from Ubunto 10.4 ("good buddy") to Ubuntu
10.10 ("Malicious Meerkat"??). Now, when I fire up the virtual machine
manager, I see a connection. What I don't see are any of the VMs. All
the VMs use qemu.I found the following in the release notes: Previous libvirt versions would probe a qemu disk to determine its format and did not require that the format be declared in the XML. This is considered a security problem in most deployments and newer versions of libvirt will default to the 'raw' format when the format is not specified in the XML. As a result, non-raw disks without a specified disk format will no longer be available in existing virtual machines. The libvirt-migrate-qemu-disks tool is provided to aid in transitioning virtual machine definitions to the new required format. In essence, it will check all domains for affected virtual machines, probe the affected disks and update the domain definition accordingly. This command will be run automatically on upgrade. For new virtual machines using non-raw images, the disk format must be specified in the domain XML provided to libvirt, otherwise the disk will not be available to the virtual machine. See man 1 libvirt-migrate-qemu-disks for details. Users who require the old behavior can adjust the 'allow_disk_format_probing' option in /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/ReleaseNotes So: r...@dzur:~# libvirt-migrate-qemu-disks -a Waiting up to 10 seconds for libvirtd to start... Waiting up to 30 seconds for libvirtd to respond to requests... Checking domains defined in /etc/libvirt/qemu... migrate_vm "amanda1" is not responding. Aborting migrate_vm "bare.metal" is not responding. Aborting etc... Well, of course it isn't responding. I haven't fired it up. And why have I not fired it up? Because it's not available in the menu for me to fire it up. Doh! Suggestions? -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
