kbuilds's questions

I am using Salt to provision machines, both physical and virtual, for my company. It would be really nice if I could also use Salt (Salt-Virt) to manage the various virtual machines running on my hosts, as the number/complexity of VMs is growing quickly.

Here's where I am:

• Followed this guide, changing packages for Ubuntu instead of RHL: http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/tutorials/cloud_controller.html
• Both the physical and virtual machines are running Ubuntu Server
• I am able to run the salt-run virt.init test1 2 512 salt://BASE.img command to deploy the machine to the host.
• The image is showing up on the minion in /srv/salt-images/test1/ as a .qcow2

But it seems that the host (hypervisor) has no idea that the VM exists. I am not getting any errors from Salt on the master or the minion.

• On the host, virsh list brings back an empty list
• On the Salt master, salt-run virt.start test1 returns the error: Failed to find vm test1 to start

Has anyone ever gotten Salt-Virt to work on Ubuntu? What am I missing?