On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> wrote: > On 02/01/2013 04:08 AM, harryxiyou wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I wanna boot VMs from sheepdog volumes so i do according to >> https://github.com/collie/sheepdog/wiki/Libvirt >> However, some errors happened to me like following. >> >> $ ./virsh create os.xml >> error：create domain from os.xml failure >> error：(domain_definition):14: Premature end of data in tag domain line 1 >> (null) >> ^ > > That says your <domain> tag is incomplete. Sure enough... > >> >> $ cat os.xml >> <domain type='qemu'> > > You opened it... > >> <name>testvm</name> >> <memory>1048576</memory> >> <os> >> <type arch='x86_64'>hvm</type> >> </os> >> <devices> >> <disk type='network'> >> <source protocol="sheepdog" name="testvdi"/> >> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> >> </disk> >> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes'/> >> </devices> > > ...but never closed it with </domain>. > A stupid mistake. Thanks for your reminder ;-) [...] > Rather than writing XML by hand from scratch, I highly recommend using a > higher level program like virt-manager to create a scratch VM, and then > use 'virsh edit' to hand tune the resulting XML. That way, you are less > likely to forget something essential, and will at least have the benefit > of seeing how libvirt indents constructs rather than struggling to > visually pick out the indentation with everything starting on the first > column. > Thanks, i will. -- Thanks Harry Wei |