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

[Aneurin Price]

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.

I've also tested using parameters like Piotr Jasiukajtis gave as
working configuration for him - same problem.

I can keep system/qemu/kvm at the working version for now, but
obviously that's not a solution long-term. Any ideas?