Bugzilla – Bug 556698
virt-manager's New VM button does nothing
Last modified: 2010-04-20 15:43:18 UTC
When running virt-manager and pressing the "New VM" button, or selecting "New..." from a right-click menu on an open hypervisor connection for kvm, vmm asks for authentication via an Authenticate panel (since this is a system qemu connection), however once authenticated, nothing happens. I notice that the virt-install package (as per python-virtinstall on fc) does not exist for os11.2. If I run vm-install from the commandline (installed from the vm-install package), a vm installation panel pops up and I am able to create a functional kvm vm this way. If the omission of virt-install is intentional, then there seems to be a disconnect between virt-manager and vm-install, forcing first knowing to actually run vm-install instead of virt-install and second, for having to run it by hand.
As a work around you should become user root before launching virt-manager.
Ah, yes, executing virt-manager as root does in fact make the New button work. Thanks.
Creating new VMs from remote does not work too. If you are running virt-manager on a remote system connected via network to the xen/kvm host, virt-manager's 'New VM'-button does nothing. Tested with connection-types 'Remote Password or Kerberos' and 'Remote tunnel over SSH'. Observation: virt-manager DOES bring up the 'Create Virtual Machine Dialog' IF the machine virt-manager is executed on runs the xen-kernel.
An additional symptom I'm seeing is this message whenever pressing the 'Create a new virtual machine' toolbar button is: libvirtd: 10:26:11.978: error : qemudDomainLookupByName:3226 : Domain not found: no domain with matching name 'opensuse11'
(In reply to comment #2) > Ah, yes, executing virt-manager as root does in fact make the New button work. > Thanks. Upgrading to os11.3 provides a newer version of virt-manager that prompts for root authentication. There are no plans to backport this feature / version to os11.2. Marking as fixed in os11.3.