Guest installation in KVM giving error : Unable to complete install 'libvirt.libvirtError unknown OS type xen
Issue
- Guest installation in KVM is giving the following error.
Unable to complete install 'libvirt.libvirtError unknown OS type xen
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 724, in do_install
dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 541, in start_install
return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 633, in _do_install
self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 974, in createLinux
if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: unknown OS type xen
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
- KVM
- Hardware : HP DL580
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