1. start virt-manager, connect to localhost (System), click New
2. pick a name (eg, testme) and choose Network boot (PXE) as the install method, click Forward
3. Choose Generic/Generic and click Forward
4. RAM and CPUs are defaults, click Forward
5. Disk is default, but don't allocate all right now, click Forward
6. click Advanced, and choose qemu/arm (I also tried ppc and i686 (I have an x86_64 host)), click Finish
Binary package hint: virt-manager
Steps to reproduce:
1. start virt-manager, connect to localhost (System), click New
2. pick a name (eg, testme) and choose Network boot (PXE) as the install method, click Forward
3. Choose Generic/Generic and click Forward
4. RAM and CPUs are defaults, click Forward
5. Disk is default, but don't allocate all right now, click Forward
6. click Advanced, and choose qemu/arm (I also tried ppc and i686 (I have an x86_64 host)), click Finish
The guest starts, but: /usr/bin/ qemu-system- x86_64< /emulator> qemu-system- x86_64 -S -M pc-0.11 -no-kvm -m 512 -smp 1 -name test17 -uuid d9621bd2- 2012-462b- 1ebc-ac55000cc2 1e -monitor unix:/var/ run/libvirt/ qemu/testme. monitor, server, nowait -no-reboot -boot n -drive file=/var/ lib/libvirt/ images/ testme. img,if= ide,index= 0 -net nic,macaddr= 54:52:00: 33:3c:20, vlan=0, name=nic. 0 -net tap,fd= 19,vlan= 0,name= tap.0 -serial pty -parallel none -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:1 -k en-us -vga cirrus -soundhw es1370
$ virsh dumpxml test17 |grep qemu
Connecting to uri: qemu:///system
<domain type='qemu' id='2'>
<emulator>
$ ps auxww|grep qemu
root 16866 99.8 4.8 915300 194760 ? R 16:15 1:11 /usr/bin/
ProblemType: Bug ature: Ubuntu 2.6.31- 14.47-generic
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 16 16:10:30 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Release amd64 (20090420.1)
Package: virt-manager 0.7.0-3ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: virt-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64