[libvirt] libvirt 0.7.5 vs qemu 0.12.1 imcompatability?

Nikola Ciprich extmaillist at linuxbox.cz
Wed Jan 6 18:56:49 UTC 2010


Hi Tom,
I've had similar trouble with old bios images. Once I replaced them with
those built with qemu-kvm, things started working...
regards
nik

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 05:34:57PM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 06/01/10 17:32, Thomas Treutner wrote:
> >On Wednesday 06 January 2010 17:11:17 Tom Hughes wrote:
> >
> >>Hmm... Well something is wrong because I just get a black screen. I
> >>don't even get the BIOS messages since I updated this morning.
> >
> >If you start your VM with -kernel $image, there's a bug in qemu-0.12.1(.1?),
> >which is fixed in 0.12.1.2.
> 
> It's a windows VM, so no. The qemu command libvirt is using is:
> 
> /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc-0.11 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 2 -name
> windows_xp_64 -uuid bb4c089d-1a5e-b349-07fe-4098efdf5fe0 -monitor
> unix:/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/windows_xp_64.monitor,server,nowait
> -localtime -boot c -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/windows_xp_64.img,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on
> -drive if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2 -net
> nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:12:4a:56,vlan=0,model=virtio,name=virtio.0 -net
> tap,fd=27,vlan=0,name=tap.0 -serial pty -parallel none -usb
> -usbdevice tablet -vnc 0.0.0.0:0 -k en-gb -vga std -soundhw es1370
> 
> That said, I've tried stripping most of that out and still get
> nothing so I think something more fundamental is wrong.
> 
> Tom
> 
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