I get this error when I run virt-install to create a paravirtualized xen guest. During the virtinst installation it says: >>> Messages generated by process 26696 on 2008-08-13 21:37:47 CEST for package app-emulation/virtinst-0.300.3-r1: LOG: postinst Please select the following os-type/-variant if you want virtio_net and/or virtio_blk support: | os | variant | virtio_net | virtio_blk | | linux | gentoostable | yes | no | | linux | gentoounstable | yes | no | | linux | ubuntuHardy | yes | no | I am not sure what the "no" on virtio_blk means. Couldn't I use virtinst to create a paravirtualized guest in a emulated drive made of a file? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # virt-install --name=test --ram=256 --file=/srv/xen/test.img --file-size=3 --paravirt --debug Actual Results: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:30:36 DEBUG Disk path not found: Assuming file disk type. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:30:36 ERROR 'ParaVirtGuest' object has no attribute 'get_virtio_blk' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 499, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 413, in main guest, hvm, conn) File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 110, in get_disks disk, size) File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 109, in <lambda> map(lambda d, s: get_disk(d, s, sparse, guest, hvm, conn), File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 76, in get_disk d.virtio = guest.get_virtio_blk() AttributeError: 'ParaVirtGuest' object has no attribute 'get_virtio_blk' app-emulation/libvirt version 0.4.4-r1 # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.21-xen-xen0-02 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-xen-xen0-02 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz Timestamp of tree: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:36:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r9, 2.5.2-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo " LANG="en_GB.utf8" LC_ALL="en_GB.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog midi mmx mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint i810 mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Can you test this with a newer version and report back?
As a note, same issue reported at Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/virtinst/+bug/221746
