Ubuntu 12.04 / kvm / convirt can not be installed properly

Tue May 8 17:19:47 UTC 2012

Quoting Thorsten Göllner (tg at ovm-group.com):
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>     Hi,<br>
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>     I am working for 3 days on a server installation (12.04) now. I am
>     using kvm to run virtual machines on my server. I was looking now
>     for a management tool and tried convirt. After apt-get install

Can I ask why you chose convirt, rather than the (preferred on ubuntu
server) libvirt?

>     convirt I noticed, that the installation process for this package is
>     broken.<br>
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>     1) In /etc/convirt/development.ini the administrator password for
>     mysql ist not set. This can be done manually (<span
>       style="font-style: italic">sqlalchemy.url=mysql://root:mypassword@localhost:3306/convirt?charset=utf8).<br>
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>       2) After that I tried to start it (sudo service convirt start)
>       again. But it failed with respect to the missing database tables.
>       Database convirt (mysql) is created but is empty.
>       "dpkg-reconfigure convirt" does not help. I tried convirt_setup
>       and database was now created properly.<br>
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>       3) And again I tried to start the service. But now I get an error
>       like "there is no property for object c" in the log file.<br>
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>       Any hint for me? Do you need more detailed information?<br>
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>       Thanks for any help<br>
>       -Thorsten-<br>
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