Cannot get XEN (or KVM) to bootup - OpenSuse 12.1 64 bits - Pt. 2

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I have followed MarcoMeswara’s query with interest but my problem seems different. I have tried installing both KVM & Xen several times but can get no further than this with either of them:

import vmdisks.disks
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vmdisks/init.py”, line 2, in <module>
from diskmap import *
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vmdisks/diskmap.py”, line 1, in <module>
import libvirt
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py”, line 25, in <module>
raise lib_e
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirtmod.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

The Network Bridge tells me that it is set up correctly.

Oddly enough,VirtualBox works fine - but once I install one of the others, it disappears completely.

Any ideas?

Samsung RV511
i5 CPU M480 2.6GHz
Total RAM 5.7Gb
nVidia nouveau (2D) nouveau Gallium (3D)
USB 2.0 only (no 3.0)

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Did you see this from the following Xen thread here? “5) Press F5 and select System V (Do not use systemd with Xen at this Time)”

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/virtualization/470272-cannot-get-xen-bootup-opensuse-12-1-64-bits.html

Thank You,

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Sorry about the delay getting back to you - busy weekend! - but yes, here is what I have done:

  1. Press F5 and select System V (Do not use systemd with Xen at this Time)
  2. Select Xen in the openSUSE 12.1 Grub menu and Press Enter

So far so good! Then:

  1. Log in as root to CLI. Run virsh or virt-manager or virt-viewer from terminal

Here I open a terminal as root:

run virsh:

linux-r8jb:/home/dmk-suse # virsh
p11-kit: couldn’t load module: /usr/lib/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
*** stack smashing detected ***: virsh terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x40)[0xf7248710]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0xeb6c7)[0xf72486c7]
/usr/lib/libvirt.so.0(+0x20a661)[0xf7680661]
/usr/lib/libvirt.so.0(+0x11dbfd)[0xf7593bfd]
/usr/lib/libvirt.so.0(+0x124004)[0xf759a004]
/usr/lib/libvirt.so.0(virInitialize+0x11b)[0xf752b81b]
virsh[0x804f6e6]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf3)[0xf7176003]
virsh[0x8050641]
======= Memory map: ========

The Memory map makes the character count extend to 20,349 (SuSE limit - 15,000)

Aborted

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Run virt-manager:

linux-r8jb:/home/dmk-suse # virt-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py”, line 383, in <module>
main()
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py”, line 246, in main
from virtManager import cli
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/cli.py”, line 29, in <module>
import libvirt
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py”, line 25, in <module>
raise lib_e
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirtmod.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

I now intend to do a(nother) clean installation of SuSE 12.1, an installation of Fedora 15 (which, I read, has put a lot of effort into virtualization and see what the result is.

I feel as if I’ve been here before. I’ve used SuSE since 6.3 - I remember moving from 6/7 or 7/8 or maybe even 8/9 (one of those anyway) and it not working well. I shifted to Mandrake for a while and shifted back to SuSE when the ?.1 release became available. 12.1 seems a bit the same.

All help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

4

OK! I appear to be getting somewhere.

The file:

/usr/lib/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so

does not exist (nor does the directory /usr/lib/pkcs11/).

What does exist is

/usr/lib64/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so.

So, I created

/usr/lib/pkcs11/

and created a link

ln -disv /usr/lib64/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so /usr/lib/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so

to:

/usr/lib64/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so

The result is as follows:

linux-r8jb:/home/dmk-suse # virsh
p11-kit: couldn’t load module: /usr/lib/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
*** stack smashing detected ***: virsh terminated

All rather odd. My guess is that someone has been fiddling about with the code and re-compiled it before it (or maybe the 64bit version of 12.1) was quite ready.

Virsh (Launcher –> System –> Virtualization –> Create Virtual Machines for Xen & KVM) is apparently looking for a 32bit library which is not included in the system.

Virt-Manager (Launcher –> System –> Virtualization –> Virtual Machine Manager) seems to want a 64bit library where only a 32bit one is provided

I shall go back to Virtual-box. Iwould like to have tried Xen or KVM (or both) but I guess I shall wait for 12.2 in the hopes that this will be sorted out.

dmk

Samsung RV511
i5 CPU M480 2.6GHz
Total RAM 5.7Gb
nVidia nouveau (2D) nouveau Gallium (3D)
USB 2.0 only (no 3.0)