In virtinst 0.600.2 (most recent version), passing --cpuset=auto to auto assign the guest to a specific set of CPUs silently fails (as in it'll continue creating the domain without informing you of the problem) with this error in the virt-install.log file: DEBUG (cli:835) Not setting cpuset: unsupported operand type(s) for *: 'NoneType' and 'int' This was fixed right after the 0.600.2 release by upstream. The attached patch contins the fix. Additionally, could you please add epatch_user to src_prepare() so that it'd be easier to patch problems like this in the future through /etc/portage/patches? Thanks.
Fixed in 0.600.3 and I've actually removed 0.600.2 from the tree.