Hi folks, I was following; http://howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-kvm-on-ubuntu-9.04 to create a KVM virtual machine running Ubuntu 9.04 32bit but failed creating guest. # vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --suite=intrepid --flavour=virtual --arch=i386 --mirror=http://192.168.0.10:9999/ubuntu -o --libvirt=qemu:///system --tmpfs=- --ip=192.168.0.11 --part=vmbuilder.partition --templates=mytemplates --user=admin --name=Admin --pass=apassword --addpkg=vim-nox --addpkg=unattended-upgrades --addpkg=acpid --firstboot=boot.sh --mem=256 --hostname=vm1 --bridge=br0 Code: ....... 2009-05-30 17:31:28,302 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2009-05-30 17:31:28,523 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2009-05-30 17:31:28,554 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2009-05-30 17:31:33,813 INFO Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) 2009-05-30 17:31:35,302 INFO addgroup: The group `admin' already exists and is not a system group. Exiting. 2009-05-30 17:31:35,303 INFO Cleaning up Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/vmbuilder", line 29, in <module> VMBuilder.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/__init__.py", line 66, in run frontend.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/plugins/cli/__init__.py", line 67, in run vm.create() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/vm.py", line 469, in create raise e VMBuilder.exception.VMBuilderException: Process (['chroot', '/tmp/vmbuilderJ0sb_H/root', 'addgroup', '--system', 'admin']) returned 1. stdout: , stderr: addgroup: The group `admin' already exists and is not a system group. Exiting. root@server1:~/vm1# ls -l /etc/libvirt/qemu/ Code: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-05-28 19:12 networks root@server1:/home/satimis# virsh list Code: Connecting to uri: qemu:///system Id Name State ---------------------------------- Not guest created. This seems a bug; http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1056124.html Is there a solution? Please advise. TIA B.R. satimis
You must choose a different user name. admin is reserved in Ubuntu. Use administrator or something else for the --user
