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[Aaron Rosen <arosen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you show the qemu-kvm command you are running?


On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:48 AM, AK Sathiya <ak_misc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Aaron, i have only qemu-kvm not kvm. The issue was the image type is
> qcow2. When I changed it to the following I got pass that issue.
>
> qemu-image create -f qcow2 $IMAGE 5 G
>
> Howerve, I am not getting ISOLINUX 4.02 2010-07-21 ETCD Copyright (C)
> 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et alÿ.
>
> I have tried to boot with the same ISO on a different VM and it worked
> fined.
>
> Not sure why. any ideas.
>
> AK
>
>
>> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:09:19 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] QEMU Error
>> From: arosen@xxxxxxxxxx
>> To: ak_misc@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> CC: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>>
>> The following should do the trick for you in order to create a new
>> disk and boot an iso using it :
>>
>> IMAGE=centos-6.2.img
>> qemu-img create -f raw $IMAGE 5G
>> sudo kvm -hda $IMAGE -m 512 -smp 2 -cdrom centos_installer.iso -boot c
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:36 AM, AK Sathiya <ak_misc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > All, i am a newbi to the openstack. I am trying to create a QCOW2 image
>> > from
>> > a Centos Linux installation iso and ran into the a road block. This is
>> > what
>> > I did so far (just followed the admin manual for Openstack).
>> >
>> > IMAGE=centos-6.2.img
>> > $ qemu-img create -f raw $IMAGE 5G
>> >
>> > VNCDISPLAY=:2
>> > $ MONITOR=/tmp/file.mon
>> > $ sudo /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -m 1024 -drive
>> > file=${IMAGE},if=virtio,index=0
>> > \
>> > -boot c -net nic -net user -nographic -vnc ${VNCDISPLAY} \
>> > -monitor unix:${MONITOR},server,nowait
>> >
>> > I have the distribution iso on the local directory of the user.
>> >
>> > I got the following error. what am i missing here?
>> >
>> > qemu-kvm: -drive file=centos-6.2.img,if=virtio,index=0: could not open
>> > disk
>> > image centos-6.2.img:Operation not supported
>> >
>> > Any help is appreciated.
>> >
>> > AK
>> >
>> >
>> >
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