Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm replacement

2014-06-10 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Heiko Zinke wrote: >> >> So if I "sudo virsh edit vmname" and substitute "/usr/bin/qemu-kvm" by >> "/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -enable-kvm" I only get this >> error :( >> "error: Cannot che

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm replacement

2014-06-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Heiko Zinke wrote: > > So if I "sudo virsh edit vmname" and substitute "/usr/bin/qemu-kvm" by > "/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -enable-kvm" I only get this > error :( > "error: Cannot check QEMU binary /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine > accel=k

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm replacement

2014-06-10 Thread Heiko Zinke
Hi, with my recent qemu update from 1.6 to 2.0 I got the following error: * The kvm/qemu-kvm wrappers no longer exist, but your libvirt * instances are still pointing to it. Please update your * configs in /etc/libvirt/qemu/ to use the -enable-kvm flag * and the right system binary (e.g. qemu

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.10.2012 22:45, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Unfortunately I still don't see what to compile in for this unknown > PCI-device: the old kernel seems not to know what to do with PIIX3 > (although exactly the same kernel uses PIIX4 fine on vmware). > > Maybe some different PCI-bus .. ? afte

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.10.2012 22:06, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Worth a try, sure. Although that old suse isn't exactly gentoo ... you > know ;) Apart from testing the software inside the VM ... I got my first own 2.2-kernel booted in there ;-) I was able to add some other features I missed before, looks O

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.10.2012 21:34, schrieb Florian Philipp: > Given that the kernel is old and unsupported anyway, couldn't you > just compile a slightly newer one with the right modules? Or > transplant it from the other VM you mentioned? Yes and no ... the software running in the VM is somehow compiled "agai

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 09.10.2012 21:21, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 09.10.2012 20:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> When I cp a file within that VM it takes ages ... unfortunately the OS >> doesn't bring much modules with it so I can't just swap the virtual >> controller for SCSI or so :-( > > addition:

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.10.2012 20:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > When I cp a file within that VM it takes ages ... unfortunately the OS > doesn't bring much modules with it so I can't just swap the virtual > controller for SCSI or so :-( addition: within vmware-context I get a virtual PIIX4-IDE-controller.

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Sorry folks, I get OT again. I already spent around 3 days now fiddling around with a new and shiny virtualization server running am64. Issue: I have to run a guest which is old: Suse Linux 6.1, with a 2.2.5 kernel. ext2-filesystems in there ... I run that one OK on an older gentoo-host with

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and xscreensaver

2012-08-30 Thread jdm
Whenever I run a qemu-kvm when xscreensaver starts it stops guest os from working. Eg if I am emerging on guest or downloading a file when xscreensaver starts on the host the guest freezes. Stopping xscreensaver and guest continues where left off. I can cure this by disabling xscreensaver but s

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and xscreensaver

2012-08-29 Thread jdm
Whenever I run a qemu-kvm when xscreensaver starts it stops guest os from working. Eg if I am emerging on guest or downloading a file when xscreensaver starts on the host the guest freezes. Stopping xscreensaver and guest continues where left off. I can cure this by disabling xscreensaver but s

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

2011-07-18 Thread john
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:04:51 + j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: > No unfortunately > --Original Message-- > From: Matthew Finkel > To: Gentoo > ReplyTo: Gentoo > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm > Sent: 16 Jul 2011 17:51 > > On 07/15/11 20:24, john wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

2011-07-16 Thread jdm
No unfortunately --Original Message-- From: Matthew Finkel To: Gentoo ReplyTo: Gentoo Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm Sent: 16 Jul 2011 17:51 On 07/15/11 20:24, john wrote: > I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm virtual image on my gentoo amd64 > box. > > Everything is

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

2011-07-16 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 07/15/11 20:24, john wrote: > I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm virtual image on my gentoo amd64 > box. > > Everything is running well. Machine boots up and all looks to be ok. > > When I startx the screen goes purple (on guest) and locks up. The only > error message I get is on host. > > KVM

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

2011-07-16 Thread jdm
, 15 Jul 2011 23:02:45 To: Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm On Saturday, July 16 at 01:24 (+0100), john said: > I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm virtual image on my gentoo amd64 > box. > > Everything is running well. Machine boots up a

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

2011-07-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Saturday, July 16 at 01:24 (+0100), john said: > I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm virtual image on my gentoo amd64 > box. > > Everything is running well. Machine boots up and all looks to be ok. > > When I startx the screen goes purple (on guest) and locks up. The only > error message I

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

2011-07-15 Thread john
I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm virtual image on my gentoo amd64 box. Everything is running well. Machine boots up and all looks to be ok. When I startx the screen goes purple (on guest) and locks up. The only error message I get is on host. KVM internal error. Suberror: 1 emulation failur

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup

2011-04-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 12:00 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > Hi Albert, > Can you paste your USE flags for qemu? > > Thanks, > Kfir USE="aio sdl vde -alsa -bluetooth -brltty -curl -esd -fdt -hardened -jpeg -ncurses -png -pulseaudio -qemu-ifup -sasl -ssl -static"

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup

2011-04-06 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:06 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > Hi, > > After updating qemu-kvm to 0.13.0-r2 I get an infinite loop when running > > qemu. > > You can spot the loop with strace. > > This problem shows on Redhat > > https://bugzilla.re

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup

2011-04-06 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:06 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > Hi, > > After updating qemu-kvm to 0.13.0-r2 I get an infinite loop when running > > qemu. > > You can spot the loop with strace. > > This problem shows on Redhat > > https://bugzilla.re

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup

2011-04-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:06 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: > Hi, > After updating qemu-kvm to 0.13.0-r2 I get an infinite loop when running > qemu. > You can spot the loop with strace. > This problem shows on Redhat > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553689#c5 > and they say that it is related

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup

2011-04-05 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, After updating qemu-kvm to 0.13.0-r2 I get an infinite loop when running qemu. You can spot the loop with strace. This problem shows on Redhat https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553689#c5 and they say that it is related to the seabios. Does anyone have this problem too? I'm compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 11:39, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > The logo stays there for about 10 sec or so ... and the clock gets slooower. It *seems* solved now. Enabled high res timers in host-kernel and DISabled "internet time" (=ntp-client) in Windows7-guest. Now it is quicker and no drifting clock (w

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 10:46, schrieb Petri Rosenström: > I use kvm on gentoo, I really don't use the clock on the windows > guests (I don't use windows vm) :). But I could guess that the issue > might be with localtime, so you could try using "-rtc base=localtime" > parameter with starting the windows ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 10:46, schrieb Petri Rosenström: > I use kvm on gentoo, I really don't use the clock on the windows > guests (I don't use windows vm) :). But I could guess that the issue > might be with localtime, so you could try using "-rtc base=localtime" > parameter with starting the windows ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Petri Rosenström
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Greets, > > does anyone else run KVM on gentoo as well? > > I delivered a amd64-server these days and a Win7-pro-guest runs on it. > > Now they tell me they have clock issues in the guest :-( > > I found > > http://docs.fedoraprojec

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 10:12, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Now they tell me they have clock issues in the guest :-( [...] > I don't know where to start. Another fact: When I access the guest via RDP, it is slower than when I access it via the libvirt-console (which in fact is VNC, right?) hmm

[gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, does anyone else run KVM on gentoo as well? I delivered a amd64-server these days and a Win7-pro-guest runs on it. Now they tell me they have clock issues in the guest :-( I found http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Virtualization_Guide/chap-Virtualization-KVM_guest_tim

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm setup questions

2010-07-01 Thread waltdnes
qemu-kvm apparently expects a couple of options in /etc/make.conf, namely QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS and QEMU_USER_TARGETS. The "documentation" that I could find in Google is underwhelming, to say the least. I could guess from the names alone that they "define targets"...dohhh. It could use an examp