[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#574241: virtinst: internal error Process exited while reading console log output

[Cole Robinson]

On 03/16/2010 07:27 PM, Anders Boström wrote:
> Package: virtinst
> Version: 0.500.2-1
> Severity: grave
> 
> When running virt-install, it always fails with this error message:
> 

> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:03:06 ERROR    internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/5
> qemu: could not load kernel '/var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-linux.tZUMIz': Permission denied
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 972, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 834, in main
>     start_time, guest.start_install)
>   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 896, in do_install
>     dom = install_func(conscb, progresscb, wait=(not wait))
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/virtinst/Guest.py", line 795, in start_install
>     return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/virtinst/Guest.py", line 896, in _do_install
>     self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1147, in createLinux
>     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
> libvirtError: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/5
> qemu: could not load kernel '/var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-linux.tZUMIz': Permission denied
> 

This is an issue with root URL installs and running the qemu binary as
non-root (which is probably the libvirt package default). Fixed in
upstream libvirt but not released yet:

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=3f1aa08af6580c215d973bc6bf57f505dbf8b926