Unable to import Ubuntu virtual machine on Centos 7 kvm host

Question

I am new to Jenkins, my requirement is to use the Build parameters. Where I want to populate the choice parameter from a JSON file.

Solution

You're seeing this error because Ubuntu put their own customizations into its version of libvirt and qemu/KVM. RHEL, of course, did the same thing.

But there's always a machine type that will work, namely, pc. This is always aliased to the latest i440fx machine type available on the hypervisor at the time the VM is defined.

Somewhere in the XML you'll find something like:

<type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-trusty'>hvm</type>

Just change this to:

<type arch='x86_64' machine='pc'>hvm</type>

(And note that if you use the new pc-q35-xxx machine types, the generic machine type is q35.)

Comments

[frag]

Thanx thanx thanx!

[David Corsalini]

of course on RHEL, the machine type best adjusted to run on the OS is the RHEL-7.