[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#455998: virt-manager can't create a new virtual machine

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 0.5.2-3
Severity: normal

Maybe I'm no doing it “the right way” but I can't create a new vm. I thought
virt-manager was a graphical interface à la vmware-workstation to easily
create vm without wondering how it is done.

So I installed virt-manager, libvirtd-bin, qemu. I started libvirtd, then
virt-manager. It connects correctly to “qemu session” on localhost, so I tried
to create a VM.

First, I can't check the “Use hardware acceleration”, while I have a Core2Duo
wich supports it. Maybe it's a limitation in qemu, I don't know, but couldn't
find information.

Then, when trying a really simple vm (debian etch amd64), I can't select how I
want the network (and I can't create a network if I'm not running as root but
this deserves another bug report, as it doesn't work anyway)

Finally, at the summary step, I try to click “Finish” to create the vm, but
there's a popup saying “Unable to complete install: "NoneType' object has no
attribute 'setup"”

Then details:

Unable to complete install 'exceptions.AttributeError 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'setup'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 616, in do_install
    dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/virtinst/Guest.py", line 724, in start_install
    return self._do_install(consolecb, meter)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/virtinst/Guest.py", line 736, in _do_install
    self._create_devices(meter)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/virtinst/Guest.py", line 644, in _create_devices
    nic.setup(self.conn)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'setup'
'

And I can't do anything else then canceling creation.

Cheers,
--
Yves-Alexis Perez


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-rc4 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                  1.20.0-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                        2.7-4       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                    1.4.10-1.2  The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libffi4                      4.2.2-4     Foreign Function Interface library
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.14.4-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.12.3-1    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0                1.18.3-1    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-common              2.18.2-1    SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  python-dbus                  0.82.4-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-glade2                2.12.0-2    GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2                2.20.0-1    Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gtk-vnc               0.2.0-2     A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ (pyth
ii  python-gtk2                  2.12.0-2    Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-libvirt               0.3.3-4     libvirt python bindings
ii  python-urlgrabber            3.1.0-4     A high-level cross-protocol url-gr
ii  python-vte                   1:0.16.10-1 Python bindings for the VTE widget
ii  python2.4                    2.4.4-6     An interactive high-level object-o
ii  virtinst                     0.300.1-3   Programs to create and clone virtu

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  hal                           0.5.10-4   Hardware Abstraction Layer

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