On 01/21/2010 10:02 AM, Ed Hargin wrote: > __Overview__ > + Running KVM-88, with a range of libvirt tools: libvirt-0.7.2, > virtinst-0.500.0, virt-viewer-0.0.3, virt-manager-0.7.0 on Centos-5.4. > + On boxes that previously had older versions of software (KVM-84, > libvirt-0.6.2, virtinst-0.400.3, Centos-5.2) VMs were able to be > installed and run > correctly. Previously installed VMs continue to work with the new > upgraded > install. > + When trying to run virt-install in the new environment, we recieve the > following error message after virt-install has downloaded the vmlinuz > file > from the remote URL: > ERROR coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found > This happens both when using --prompt and providing full arguments on the > command line. A more detailed trace can be found at the end of the > email. > The same error occurs when trying use a local .iso image, and other > mirrors. > + I am perfectly happy to provide more details, particularly details of the > exact compile/configure options used to install all components of the > environment, just ask. I tried to focus in on where the problem was and > didn't want to provide too much uneccessary information and make this > hard to > read. > + I believe it may (or may not) be significant that I had to hand-edit the > hard-coded values for virt-viewer and virsh, both of which are statically > referred to in /usr/bin within virt-install (within the vnc_console and > txt_console functions). > Any suggestions/advice/help would be much appreciated! >
There were a few bugs using the --prompt option in virtinst 0.500.0. I'd recommend either skipping --prompt or updating to virtinst 0.500.1. All prompt asks you for is really --name <vmname> --hvm or --paravirt (for xen only) --accelerate or not (for kvm only) --file /path/to/an/image --file-size #Gb (if the file path doesn't exist) do you want a url (--location) or cdrom (--cdrom) install ? install media path So just fill in the above options and you should be good to go. - Cole _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
