[Libguestfs] Issue with libguestfs-test-tool on a guest hosted on VMWare ESXi

[Tanmoy Sinha]

Thanks will write to VMWare forums.

Btw, is there a way I can change the qemu default machine type? I mean when
I specify *-machine pc *it picks up pc-i440fx-2.8 by default.

Or is it tied to the underlying host hardware?

*$>  *qemu-system-x86_64* -machine help*

Supported machines are:

*pc*                   Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of
pc-i440fx-2.8)

*pc-i440fx-2.8*        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default)

pc-i440fx-2.7        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)

pc-i440fx-2.6        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)

pc-i440fx-2.5        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)

pc-i440fx-2.4        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)

pc-i440fx-2.3        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)

pc-i440fx-2.2        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)

*pc-i440fx-2.1*        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
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On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 at 20:41 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 03:08:16PM +0000, Tanmoy Sinha wrote:
> > Even though force_tcg works, I intend not to run it on emulation. Is
> there
> > way I can run it over kvm? The other observation is, without force_tcg
> if I
> > use the machine type as  *pc-i440fx-2.**1*,accel=kvm it works fine. The
> > default machine type for my host *pc-i440fx-2.8, *which seems to crib.
>
> I don't know, but this is basically a bug in VMware, so you need
> to ask them to fix their nested KVM-on-ESXi use case.
>
> Rich.
>
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