[OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM guests hang at boot on oi_151a4

[Aneurin Price]

On 27 June 2012 15:02, Aneurin Price <aneurin.price at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 June 2012 13:28, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:
>> mine stopped working after u2 ... there is a "fix" on this issue:
>>
>> https://www.illumos.org/issues/2626
>>
>> # pkg uninstall driver/i86pc/kvm system/qemu system/qemu/kvm
>> # pkg install system/qemu at 0.15.0,5.11-0.151.1.2:20120209T223057Z \
>> system/qemu/kvm at 0.0.1.20110813,5.11-0.151.1.2:20120209T223223Z \
>> driver/i86pc/kvm at 0.0.1.20110820,5.11-0.151.1.2:20120209T214555Z
>>
>
> Interesting; I don't think that's the same problem - the basic
> symptoms sound similar, but I'm not getting any error message as in
> that report. Also, it doesn't seem to affect the same versions.
>
> Based on that bug thread, I've tried different version combinations of
> driver/i86pc/kvm, system/qemu, and system/qemu/kvm.
>
> The result is that driver/i86pc/kvm and system/qemu don't show the
> problem in any version I've tried, but it manifests when upgrading
> system/qemu/kvm from 0.0.1.20110813-0.151.1.2 to
> 0.0.1.20120229-0.151.1.3 or later.

Just to update: the same problem exists in oi_151a5, with
system/qemu/kvm at 0.0.1.20120622-0.151.1.5.
Reverting to 0.0.1.20110813-0.151.1.2 'solves' it once again.