Hello,
I created a virtual machine using vmbuilder:
$ sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --suite intrepid --flavour virtual --arch i386 -o --libvirt qemu:///system --ip 10.0.4.20 --part vmbuilder.partition --user user --name user --pass default --tmpfs - --firstboot boot.sh --firstlogin login.sh es[sudo] password for laurent:
2008-12-10 09:21:17,518 INFO Creating disk image: /tmp/vmbuilderqy6pgK/disk0.img 2008-12-10 09:21:17,521 INFO Adding partition table to disk image: /tmp/vmbuilderqy6pgK/disk0.img 2008-12-10 09:21:17,582 INFO Adding type 1 partition to disk image: /tmp/vmbuilderqy6pgK/disk0.img 2008-12-10 09:21:17,586 INFO Adding type 3 partition to disk image: /tmp/vmbuilderqy6pgK/disk0.img 2008-12-10 09:21:17,592 INFO Creating loop devices corresponding to the created partitions 2008-12-10 09:21:17,599 INFO Creating file systems 2008-12-10 09:21:17,603 INFO mke2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) 2008-12-10 09:21:18,063 INFO Creating disk image: /tmp/vmbuilderqy6pgK/disk1.img 2008-12-10 09:21:18,066 INFO Adding partition table to disk image: /tmp/vmbuilderqy6pgK/disk1.img 2008-12-10 09:21:20,120 INFO Adding type 1 partition to disk image: /tmp/vmbuilderqy6pgK/disk1.img 2008-12-10 09:21:20,125 INFO Creating loop devices corresponding to the created partitions 2008-12-10 09:21:20,131 INFO Creating file systems 2008-12-10 09:21:20,165 INFO mke2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) 2008-12-10 09:21:21,570 INFO Mounting target filesystems 2008-12-10 09:21:21,579 INFO Installing guest operating system. This might take some time... 2008-12-10 10:30:26,954 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:30:26,990 INFO Moving old data out of the way 2008-12-10 10:30:27,327 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:30:28,064 INFO Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub 2008-12-10 10:30:28,592 INFO Searching for default file ... Generating /boot/grub/default file and setting the default boot entry to 0 2008-12-10 10:30:28,593 INFO Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub 2008-12-10 10:30:28,598 INFO Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... 2008-12-10 10:30:28,598 INFO 2008-12-10 10:30:28,598 INFO Could not find /boot/grub/menu.lst file. 2008-12-10 10:30:28,598 INFO Generating /boot/grub/menu.lst 2008-12-10 10:30:28,637 INFO Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... 2008-12-10 10:30:28,725 INFO grep: /boot/config*: No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:30:28,771 INFO Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done 2008-12-10 10:30:28,771 INFO 2008-12-10 10:30:29,008 INFO Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub 2008-12-10 10:30:29,057 INFO Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default 2008-12-10 10:30:29,057 INFO Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst 2008-12-10 10:30:29,122 INFO Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... 2008-12-10 10:30:29,145 INFO grep: /boot/config*: No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:30:29,193 INFO Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done 2008-12-10 10:30:29,193 INFO 2008-12-10 10:30:29,327 INFO Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub 2008-12-10 10:34:12,545 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:34:12,719 INFO Done. 2008-12-10 10:34:15,634 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:34:15,757 INFO Running depmod. 2008-12-10 10:34:15,813 INFO update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-9-server 2008-12-10 10:34:17,881 INFO Running postinst hook script /usr/sbin/update-grub. 2008-12-10 10:34:17,978 INFO Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub 2008-12-10 10:34:18,733 INFO Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default 2008-12-10 10:34:18,738 INFO Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst 2008-12-10 10:34:18,802 INFO Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... 2008-12-10 10:34:18,825 INFO grep: /boot/config*: No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:34:18,834 INFO Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-server 2008-12-10 10:34:18,891 INFO Replacing config file /var/run/grub/menu.lst with new version 2008-12-10 10:34:18,906 INFO Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done 2008-12-10 10:34:18,918 INFO 2008-12-10 10:35:49,728 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:35:50,034 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:35:50,294 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:35:50,624 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:35:51,074 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:35:51,351 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:35:51,827 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:35:52,185 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:35:52,454 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:35:52,800 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:35:52,955 INFO find: /var/cache/fontconfig': No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:35:52,956 INFO find: /var/cache/fonts': No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:35:52,956 INFO find: /var/cache/anthy': No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:35:52,958 INFO find: /var/lib/belocs': No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:35:52,958 INFO find: /var/lib/gconf': No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:35:52,958 INFO find: /var/lib/defoma': No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:35:52,959 INFO find: /var/log/installer': No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:35:52,959 INFO find: /cdrom': No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:35:52,959 INFO find: /media/cdrom': No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:35:52,960 INFO find: /usr/share/fonts': No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:35:52,960 INFO find: /var/lib/anthy': No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:35:52,961 INFO find: /var/lib/defoma': No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:35:53,039 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:35:53,494 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:35:53,706 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:35:56,831 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2008-12-10 10:35:57,986 INFO Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs....done. 2008-12-10 10:35:57,986 INFO Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d....done. 2008-12-10 10:36:00,547 INFO grep: /proc/self/status: No such file or directory 2008-12-10 10:36:01,845 INFO Copying to disk images 2008-12-10 10:36:05,903 INFO Installing bootloader 2008-12-10 10:36:14,649 INFO Unmounting target filesystem 2008-12-10 10:36:14,813 INFO Converting /tmp/vmbuilderqy6pgK/disk0.img to qcow2, format ubuntu-kvm/disk0.qcow2 2008-12-10 10:36:25,600 INFO Converting /tmp/vmbuilderqy6pgK/disk1.img to qcow2, format ubuntu-kvm/disk1.qcow2 2008-12-10 10:36:46,642 INFO Cleaning up
Nice. Now I don't know how to launch, destroy or clone the VM. virsh list retuns no VM at all but the VM exists.
$ ls /etc/libvirt/qemu/
networks ubuntu.xml
Regards