boot from usb-host device

2023-08-10 Thread José Ramón Muñoz Pekkarinen
Hi, I'm testing to boot a virtual machine from an usb device on the host using usb-host device. The bios seems not to find the usb device and try alternatives methods to boot until all fail. Setting -boot menu=on, the available options doesn't list any usb drive. Is this somehow possible o

Please help me with one minor issue regarding network configuration

2023-08-10 Thread Antonio Apostoliu
Hello I see this page https://github.com/xhjcehust/qemu-virtnet-loopback You are so kind to tell me the network arguments part for connecting on Windows host (with configurated loopback interface named retealoopback) I tried: -netdev tap,id=mynet1,ifname=retealoopback -device virtio-net-pci,netd

does windows 2012 supports memory hot plugging on qemu 6.2

2023-08-10 Thread Jiatong Shen
Hello community experts, We are using qemu version 6.2 and are trying to do memory hotplugging for windows 2012 std edition. The libvirt dimm configuration is appended below. The problem I am facing is after dimm is attached, in guest the device is shown as an unknown device and driver pnpmem.sy

Invalid accelerator kvm / error: kvm run failed Function not implemented ERRORS trying to virtualize a guest OS on the ARM Chromebook running with a relatively recent kernel version and KVM enabled

2023-08-10 Thread Mario Marietto
Hello to everyone. This will be a long and high technical post about a nice toy that comes back from the past. So,keep ready to brush up some old knowledge. I've enabled KVM on a more recent kernel version,to be precise on the 5.4.244,on the old ARM Chromebook model xe303c12,following mainly thi

Need help/advice with CentOS 7 arm64 container on Ubuntu 22 amd64 Docker host

2023-08-10 Thread John Pfuntner -X (jpfuntne - ACTALENT SERVICES LLC at Cisco)
My team builds several amd64 and arm64 Linux container images daily and lately we've been having trouble with the CentOS 7 arm64 build hanging. Our build machine is an amd64 Ubuntu Openstack machine running Docker and we use QEMU to run arm64 containers. We recently upgraded tooling to: *

Need help with CentOS 7 container arm64 container update

2023-08-10 Thread John Pfuntner -X (jpfuntne - ACTALENT SERVICES LLC at Cisco)
My team builds several amd64 and arm64 Linux container images daily and lately we've been having trouble with the CentOS 7 arm64 build hanging. Our build machine is an amd64 Ubuntu Openstack machine running Docker and we use QEMU to run arm64 containers. We recently upgraded tooling to: *

Re: Invalid accelerator kvm / error: kvm run failed Function not implemented ERRORS trying to virtualize a guest OS on the ARM Chromebook running with a relatively recent kernel version and KVM enable

2023-08-10 Thread Peter Maydell
On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 at 17:52, Mario Marietto wrote: > I conducted some further experiments : > > In this example I've used qemu 5.2.0 installed by default by the devuan 4 : > > > qemu-system-arm \ > -enable-kvm -serial stdio -kernel zImage \ > -m 512 -M vexpress-a15 -cpu cortex-a15 \ >

Re: Invalid accelerator kvm / error: kvm run failed Function not implemented ERRORS trying to virtualize a guest OS on the ARM Chromebook running with a relatively recent kernel version and KVM enable

2023-08-10 Thread Mario Marietto
---> You can't use KVM with the vexpress-a15 board. The only Arm guest machine that will work with KVM is the "virt" board. point 1) On the virtual open systems website they used the vexpress-a15 board. You can read by yourself what they say : The guests that we will create later will be based o

Re: Invalid accelerator kvm / error: kvm run failed Function not implemented ERRORS trying to virtualize a guest OS on the ARM Chromebook running with a relatively recent kernel version and KVM enable

2023-08-10 Thread Mario Marietto
---> You can't use KVM with the vexpress-a15 board. The only Arm guest machine that will work with KVM is the "virt" board. ok,I tried -M virt like this : qemu-system-arm \ -enable-kvm -serial stdio -kernel zImage \ -m 512 -M virt -cpu cortex-a15 \ but I've got the same error : qemu-syst