kvm on a 64-bit intrepid host cannot boot solaris 10 guest

[Munzir Taha (منذر طه)]

Binary package hint: kvm

I downloaded and installed Solaris 10 DVD (sol-10-u5-ga-x86-dvd.iso) on my new 64-bit Intrepid on my Core 2 Duo system. The installation went smoothly but when I tried to boot using
kvm -m 512 -snapshot solaris.img, it reached the grub menu and just kept rebooting endlessly instead of booting into the system. I tried -no-acpi to no avail.

Qemu works though very slow and has this warning upon boot:

WARNING: cpu0: failed to update microcode code from version 0x0 to 0x36

virtualbox works great.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Hi Munzir-

Thanks for the report. I do not have access to the Solaris 10 dvd iso.

Could you please test this either:
 a) on an Ubuntu 9.04 system, or
 b) upgrade your kvm on your intrepid system to the kvm-84 in the ppa at:
  * https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-virt/+archive/ppa
and report back here?

:-Dustin

[James Andrewartha (trs80)]

I was having this problem as well on hardy - booting the 32bit kernel (by adding kernel/unix to the grub kernel line) worked. I upgraded to kvm-84 and now the domain doesn't even get to grub.

[nixgeek (nixgeek)]

I to am having this issue... 32bit works flawlessly with one VPU... Major Kernel stack in Non-VM host when using more then one vcpu. But single VCPU and 32bit guest Solaris 10 U7 patched. Works great... even non-global zones and zfs in guest work without issue.

I need 64bit.... any ideas on a fix?

Host: Intel core2duo E6300 6GB of Ram
Intel Nics {3 in bridge}
2 {36GB OS mirror disk}
2 {500gb VM disks mirror}
several iscsi disks for use in the VM's.

Please advise...

[nixgeek (nixgeek)]

Opps I am using the latest release of KVM and QEMU...

I am using Ubuntu 9.04 Server - latest updates installed.

<root@vmserver ~>
# apt-show-versions | egrep "kvm|qemu"
kqemu-common/jaunty uptodate 1.4.0~pre1-1ubuntu3
kqemu-source/jaunty uptodate 1.4.0~pre1-1ubuntu3
kvm/jaunty-updates uptodate 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu12.3
qemu/jaunty uptodate 0.10.0-1ubuntu1
qemu-launcher/jaunty uptodate 1.7.4-1
qemubuilder/jaunty uptodate 0.48
qemuctl/jaunty uptodate 0.2-2
qemulator/jaunty uptodate 0.5-3

QEMU PC emulator version 0.9.1 (kvm-84), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Can anyone confirm this is working or not on karmic please?

Thanks
chuck

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