[opensuse-kernel] Re: KVM on openSUSE 11.3

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Sankar P wrote:

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Sankar P wrote:

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Hi,

After updating to 11.3 (from 11.2) KVM is not working in my box. If I do a  `qemu-img create -f qcow sled11sp1.img 10G `  I get a : 'qemu-img: Error while formatting ' error message. lsmod shows that kvm-intel and kvm are loaded. There is no "-verbose" option for qemu-img create, to provide detail logs.

Okay. I found the cause of the issue. qemu-img create wants me to run as root, but I don't understand why (as long as I am creating the image in a writeable location under my home)

This is my mistake. A user who logged in parallely via ssh has done 'chown root' and that caused this issue. I am sorry for spamming.

The rest of the questions still remain valid. You think it is a good idea to put some information on: http://en.opensuse.org/kvm ? (How to create VMs images, how to enable networking for them etc.)

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On Google I found that virt-manager supports managing KVM images as well. But when I try to use it on 11.3 it insists on installing and does not seem to work with KVM (that is already installed)

Are there any GUI based management tools for KVM that are well documented for openSUSE ? (For instance, If I want to enable networking for all my VMs, I don't want to run a shell script and would prefer if it works out of the box for the VM etc.)

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