[Bug 1301598] [NEW] Unable to create guest VM using virt-install

[Namu]

Public bug reported:

Working in Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr), running libvirt version 1.2.1.

root at srvr-931:~# virt-install --name nam --ram 4096 --disk
path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/nam.img,bus=virtio --import --noautoconsole
--network network:default,model=virtio

Starting install...
ERROR    Connection is closed
Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
If it was, you can restart your domain by running:
  virsh --connect qemu:///system start nam
otherwise, please restart your installation.
root at srvr-931:~# virsh --connect qemu:///system start nam
error: failed to get domain 'nam'
error: Domain not found: no domain with matching name 'nam'

I see this in virt-install.log -

[Wed, 02 Apr 2014 07:26:55 virt-install 16207] ERROR (cli:445) Connection is closed
[Wed, 02 Apr 2014 07:26:55 virt-install 16207] DEBUG (cli:448) 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 636, in start_install
    noboot=options.noreboot)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1246, in start_install
    noboot)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1314, in _create_guest
    dom = self.conn.createLinux(start_xml or final_xml, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 3199, in createLinux
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: Connection is closed
[Wed, 02 Apr 2014 07:26:55 virt-install 16207] DEBUG (cli:457) Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
If it was, you can restart your domain by running:
  virsh --connect qemu:///system start nam
otherwise, please restart your installation.

I run the same command on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS and I don't see any problem
there. This looks very similar to Bug#1180281, but I don't see a
solution there. Does anyone know if this is fixed now? And the versions
that I need to use?

Thank you!

** Affects: libvirt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: libvirt

** Tags added: libvirt

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