anyone got virt-install working on latest slackware 15 ?

mlangelaar · 03-01-2023, 09:29 AM

I have spent 2 days trying to get virt-install to work, have tried the
latest virt-manager 4 and 3 (both giving me JSON parser errors) and any
earlier versions are giving me virinst.cli no attribute parse option str
errors, I just can't win. I can get virsh (libvirt compile) working no
problem, but any of the python3 utilities (virt-install), no luck. It's
really too bad, was hoping to use my slackware as a KVM platform.

references :

https://virt-manager.org

https://libvirt.org/compiling.html

Anyone have any success ?

I have a NO graphics, just text only system (on purpose)

Maiko

mlangelaar · 03-01-2023, 11:25 AM

Belay that request (maybe) ...

So I just found this HOWTO on slackware docs :

https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:em...manage_install

That's a LOT of stuff to do, but if I can get it working, great !

EDIT : good grief, not getting anywheres soon, but I continue

My goal is to get a slackware 15 based KVM platform, just virsh and virt-install, no graphics ...

Maiko

imitis · 03-07-2023, 01:16 PM

Have you tried this:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...on-4175720780/

imitis · 03-07-2023, 01:18 PM

or this:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...is-4175707508/

Daedra · 03-07-2023, 06:08 PM

I recently made the jump to Qemu/KVM/Virt-Manager. Here is my post on the subject
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...on-4175720780/

First install sbopkg then make an sbopkg queue file with the following contents, save this file as /var/lib/sbopkg/queues/qemu.sqf

Code:

osinfo-db-tools
osinfo-db
libosinfo
yajl
numactl
libvirt
libvirt-glib
libvirt-python
gtk-vnc
spice-protocol
spice
usbredir
spice-gtk
device-tree-compiler
libnfs
snappy
vde2
virglrenderer
libslirp
qemu
virt-manager

start sbopkg and go to queues and load the qemu queue file you just created. Process the queue and wait until all the packages are built and installed. After the queue is finished you need to put the following code in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file

Code:

# Start libvirt:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.libvirt ]; then
  /etc/rc.d/rc.libvirt start
fi

now you can launch libvirt with

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.libvirt start

or you can reboot. After that you should be good to go.