Re: Boxes on Mageia

[Michael Hill <mdhillca gmail com>]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 04:22:31PM -0500, Michael Hill wrote:
>> I can do that when I get back to the computer (*and* check the BIOS
>> settings). When I ran it this morning all the guests were hvm, no kvm.
>
> True! I really thought it was kvm before. I think our qemu is only
> supposed to do kvm. No idea what hvm is :P

Virtual machine enabled in BIOS, kvm-amd module loads.

I uninstalled and re-installed qemu but still get...

$ virsh capabilities
<capabilities>

  <host>
    <uuid>03af0ffd-45ae-bc09-6e51-b17a324dc873</uuid>
    <cpu>
      <arch>i686</arch>
      <model>Opteron_G3</model>
      <vendor>AMD</vendor>
      <topology sockets='1' cores='2' threads='1'/>
      <feature name='wdt'/>
      <feature name='skinit'/>
      <feature name='osvw'/>
      <feature name='3dnowprefetch'/>
      <feature name='cr8legacy'/>
      <feature name='extapic'/>
      <feature name='cmp_legacy'/>
      <feature name='3dnow'/>
      <feature name='3dnowext'/>
      <feature name='pdpe1gb'/>
      <feature name='fxsr_opt'/>
      <feature name='mmxext'/>
      <feature name='ht'/>
      <feature name='vme'/>
    </cpu>
    <power_management>
      <suspend_mem/>
      <suspend_disk/>
    </power_management>
    <migration_features>
      <live/>
      <uri_transports>
        <uri_transport>tcp</uri_transport>
      </uri_transports>
    </migration_features>
  </host>

  <guest>
    <os_type>hvm</os_type>
    <arch name='i686'>
      <wordsize>32</wordsize>
      <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu</emulator>
      <machine>pc-0.14</machine>
      <machine canonical='pc-0.14'>pc</machine>
      <machine>fedora-13</machine>
      <machine>pc-0.13</machine>
      <machine>pc-0.12</machine>
      <machine>pc-0.11</machine>
      <machine>pc-0.10</machine>
      <machine>isapc</machine>
      <domain type='qemu'>
      </domain>
      <domain type='kvm'>
        <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
        <machine>pc-0.14</machine>
        <machine canonical='pc-0.14'>pc</machine>
        <machine>fedora-13</machine>
        <machine>pc-0.13</machine>
        <machine>pc-0.12</machine>
        <machine>pc-0.11</machine>
        <machine>pc-0.10</machine>
        <machine>isapc</machine>
      </domain>
    </arch>
    <features>
      <cpuselection/>
      <deviceboot/>
      <pae/>
      <nonpae/>
      <acpi default='on' toggle='yes'/>
      <apic default='on' toggle='no'/>
    </features>
  </guest>

  <guest>
    <os_type>hvm</os_type>
    <arch name='x86_64'>
      <wordsize>64</wordsize>
      <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>
      <machine>pc-0.14</machine>
      <machine canonical='pc-0.14'>pc</machine>
      <machine>fedora-13</machine>
      <machine>pc-0.13</machine>
      <machine>pc-0.12</machine>
      <machine>pc-0.11</machine>
      <machine>pc-0.10</machine>
      <machine>isapc</machine>
      <domain type='qemu'>
      </domain>
    </arch>
    <features>
      <cpuselection/>
      <deviceboot/>
      <acpi default='on' toggle='yes'/>
      <apic default='on' toggle='no'/>
    </features>
  </guest>

  <guest>
    <os_type>hvm</os_type>
    <arch name='arm'>
      <wordsize>32</wordsize>
      <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-arm</emulator>
      <machine>integratorcp</machine>
      <machine>versatilepb</machine>
      <machine>versatileab</machine>
      <machine>realview-eb</machine>
      <machine>realview-eb-mpcore</machine>
      <machine>realview-pb-a8</machine>
      <machine>realview-pbx-a9</machine>
      <machine>lm3s811evb</machine>
      <machine>lm3s6965evb</machine>
      <machine>connex</machine>
      <machine>verdex</machine>
      <machine>akita</machine>
      <machine>spitz</machine>
      <machine>borzoi</machine>
      <machine>terrier</machine>
      <machine>tosa</machine>
      <machine>sx1</machine>
      <machine>sx1-v1</machine>
      <machine>cheetah</machine>
      <machine>n800</machine>
      <machine>n810</machine>
      <machine>mainstone</machine>
      <machine>musicpal</machine>
      <machine>syborg</machine>
      <machine>vexpress-a9</machine>
      <machine>collie</machine>
      <domain type='qemu'>
      </domain>
    </arch>
    <features>
      <deviceboot/>
    </features>
  </guest>

  <guest>
    <os_type>hvm</os_type>
    <arch name='mips'>
      <wordsize>32</wordsize>
      <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-mips</emulator>
      <machine>malta</machine>
      <machine>mips</machine>
      <machine>magnum</machine>
      <machine>pica61</machine>
      <machine>mipssim</machine>
      <domain type='qemu'>
      </domain>
    </arch>
    <features>
      <deviceboot/>
    </features>
  </guest>

  <guest>
    <os_type>hvm</os_type>
    <arch name='mipsel'>
      <wordsize>32</wordsize>
      <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-mipsel</emulator>
      <machine>malta</machine>
      <machine>mips</machine>
      <machine>magnum</machine>
      <machine>pica61</machine>
      <machine>mipssim</machine>
      <domain type='qemu'>
      </domain>
    </arch>
    <features>
      <deviceboot/>
    </features>
  </guest>

  <guest>
    <os_type>hvm</os_type>
    <arch name='sparc'>
      <wordsize>32</wordsize>
      <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-sparc</emulator>
      <machine>SS-5</machine>
      <machine>SS-10</machine>
      <machine>SS-600MP</machine>
      <machine>SS-20</machine>
      <machine>Voyager</machine>
      <machine>LX</machine>
      <machine>SS-4</machine>
      <machine>SPARCClassic</machine>
      <machine>SPARCbook</machine>
      <machine>SS-1000</machine>
      <machine>SS-2000</machine>
      <machine>SS-2</machine>
      <machine>leon3_generic</machine>
      <domain type='qemu'>
      </domain>
    </arch>
  </guest>

  <guest>
    <os_type>hvm</os_type>
    <arch name='ppc'>
      <wordsize>32</wordsize>
      <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc</emulator>
      <machine>g3beige</machine>
      <machine>prep</machine>
      <machine>mac99</machine>
      <machine>ref405ep</machine>
      <machine>taihu</machine>
      <machine canonical='bamboo-0.13'>bamboo</machine>
      <machine>bamboo-0.13</machine>
      <machine>bamboo-0.12</machine>
      <machine>mpc8544ds</machine>
      <machine>virtex-ml507</machine>
      <domain type='qemu'>
      </domain>
    </arch>
    <features>
      <deviceboot/>
    </features>
  </guest>

  <guest>
    <os_type>hvm</os_type>
    <arch name='ppc64'>
      <wordsize>64</wordsize>
      <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64</emulator>
      <machine>mac99</machine>
      <machine>prep</machine>
      <machine>g3beige</machine>
      <machine>ref405ep</machine>
      <machine>taihu</machine>
      <machine canonical='bamboo-0.13'>bamboo</machine>
      <machine>bamboo-0.13</machine>
      <machine>bamboo-0.12</machine>
      <machine>mpc8544ds</machine>
      <machine>virtex-ml507</machine>
      <domain type='qemu'>
      </domain>
    </arch>
    <features>
      <cpuselection/>
      <deviceboot/>
    </features>
  </guest>

</capabilities>

Running gnome-boxes still gives me...

Boxes-WARNING **: wizard.vala:136: Unable to start domain: internal
error Process exited while reading console log output: char device
redirected to /dev/pts/1
No accelerator found!
KVM not supported for this target


Mike