[OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM windows virtual machines won't start after oi151a3 update

[Jonathan Adams]

might have to do that kvm version downgrading ... I cannot install
zones on the machine I have it working on till I upgrade to a3

On 16 April 2012 21:27, Matt Connolly <matt.connolly.au at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 16/04/2012, at 8:50 PM, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I am having exactly the same issue ... anything that accesses the KVM
>> dies with "KVM internal error. Suberror: 1
>> emulation failure" over and over and over again (I was nohup'ing and
>> the log file grew to 150Mb in a few seconds)
>>
>> the system fails when Windows tries to change to the first graphical screen.
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>> I've beadm'd my system back to the previous oi151a2, and that is working fine.
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> Glad to hear I'm not alone. My Linux guests are also playing up, but much more intermittently. I rolled back the qemu and KVM packages to oi151.1.2 and it's all working gain. (I preferred to not rollback some zones that had also been updated)
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> I've filed a bug and noted about going bak to earlier version of qemu here:
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> https://www.illumos.org/issues/2626#note-5
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> Matt
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>> Jon
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>> On 16 April 2012 00:49, Matt Connolly <matt.connolly.au at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Last night I updated a machine to oi151a3 from the dev repository at  http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev .
>>>
>>> The update went fine, however my virtual machines running in Qemu-kvm are not starting. I'm having problems with both Windows XP and Windows 7 systems. They all start booting and then hang early during the boot process.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else had any problems with starting windows virtual machines?
>>>
>>> -Matt
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