Hello, more info about the system:
Manufacturer: Supermicro Product Name: X9SCI/X9SCA # Ivy Bridge-H2, Sandy Bridge https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C202_C204/X9SCA.cfm <https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C202_C204/X9SCA.cfm> head /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 58 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 V2 @ 3.50GHz stepping : 9 microcode : 0x21 cpu MHz : 1892.062 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 What's in the logs: ==> /var/log/libvirt/qemu/win7ultimate64bit.log <== char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 (label charserial0) 2021-09-17T11:55:25.802965Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48BH).vmx-apicv-register [bit 8] 2021-09-17T11:55:25.803009Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48BH).vmx-apicv-vid [bit 9] 2021-09-17T11:55:25.803016Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48DH).vmx-posted-intr [bit 7] 2021-09-17T11:55:25.803846Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48BH).vmx-apicv-register [bit 8] 2021-09-17T11:55:25.803854Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48BH).vmx-apicv-vid [bit 9] 2021-09-17T11:55:25.803858Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48DH).vmx-posted-intr [bit 7] 2021-09-17T11:55:25.804633Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48BH).vmx-apicv-register [bit 8] 2021-09-17T11:55:25.804640Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48BH).vmx-apicv-vid [bit 9] 2021-09-17T11:55:25.804644Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48DH).vmx-posted-intr [bit 7] 2021-09-17T11:55:25.805221Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48BH).vmx-apicv-register [bit 8] 2021-09-17T11:55:25.805229Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48BH).vmx-apicv-vid [bit 9] 2021-09-17T11:55:25.805233Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48DH).vmx-posted-intr [bit 7] similar issue? https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1118670-start-0.html <https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1118670-start-0.html> best regards On 9/17/21 1:51 PM, dude wrote: > > Dear Qemu & KVM Developers, > > 1) the praise: thanks for kvm-qemu, > > first off the praise: > > * kvm-qemu is a high performance nicely scriptable virtualization system > o checkout this hd bench > > https://dwaves.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/windows-7-32Bit-virtio-drivers-kvm-qemu-crystal-disk-mark-benchmark-Screenshot-at-2021-09.jpg > > <https://dwaves.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/windows-7-32Bit-virtio-drivers-kvm-qemu-crystal-disk-mark-benchmark-Screenshot-at-2021-09.jpg> > * if it works, it can do pretty things 🙂 > * especially like the x11 forwarded virt-manager gui over ssh (yes > it is a bit slow… but simplicity at it’s best) > o https://dwaves.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/virt-manager_2021.jpg > <https://dwaves.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/virt-manager_2021.jpg> > > 2) the problem/the critique: > > * why is thin provisioning > > <https://dwaves.de/2021/08/01/how-to-gnu-linux-thin-provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-with-virt-manager-bigger-than-physical-virtual-harddisks/> > not the disk-saving default option? > o or at least should be possible for the user to select this > option in virt-manager > > * do not drop windows 7 support just yet… many virtualization > systems such as VirtualBox are actually intended to run “outdated” > OS on newer hardware for the sake of getting programs to run, that > are incompatible with recent OS. > > something is very wrong with the default settings for windows 7 64bit > ultimate: it is stuck at 0% during setup (as if the harddisk died) > > https://dwaves.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/kvm-qemu-windows-7-ultimate-64bit-something-wrong-with-disk-access-sata-Screenshot-at-2021-09_2.jpg > <https://dwaves.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/kvm-qemu-windows-7-ultimate-64bit-something-wrong-with-disk-access-sata-Screenshot-at-2021-09_2.jpg> > > (this was tested and found valid on two different systems using GNU > Linux Debian 10 and 11) > > the only workaround that worked so far: go with 32Bit and use virtio > as disk driver system :) > > help! :) > > & best regards >
