This is on a fresh install of server 10.04 amd64. I selected VM host and SSH upon install, added virt-manager, virt-viewer, xterm, and ubuntu-vm-builder afterwards. I have changed networking to bridge eth0, and set libvirtxml.tmpl to use br0 by default. Using virt-manager locally on the host I attempt to install Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 from DVD .ISO. I selected "Windows" and "Windows 2008" from the drop-down list, set it 1 CPU, 4096 MB RAM, 40GB disk (I tried both thin and full provisioned disk). It successfully creates the disk, but when it goes to create the domain it fails with this message:
Unable to complete install '<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> operation failed: failed to retrieve chardev info in qemu with 'info chardev'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1436, in do_install
dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/virtinst/Guest.py", line 660, in start_install
return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/virtinst/Guest.py", line 758, in _do_install
self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 1097, in createLinux
if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: operation failed: failed to retrieve chardev info in qemu with 'info chardev'
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I deleted the vm image, then attempted a Ubuntu server 10.04 i386 installation which worked fine. I then attempted a Windows 7 x64 installation. I didn't receive the same message, but it gave me the "blue screen of death" with the message of:
STOP: 0x0000001E (0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)
Windows XP 32bit installs just fine.
If it matters the hardware I'm using is a Dell PowerEdge 1855 chassis with ten 1855 blades. They're all configured the same:
matt@libvirt01:/$ uname -a
Linux libvirt01 2.6.32-23-server #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11 09:11:11 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
matt@libvirt01:/$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 16082 1917 14164 0 58 604
-/+ buffers/cache: 1255 14826
Swap: 1952 0 1952
matt@libvirt01:/$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 3199.916
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr
bogomips : 6399.83
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 3199.916
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 3
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 6
initial apicid : 6
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr
bogomips : 6400.31
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 2
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 3199.916
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr
bogomips : 6400.27
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 3
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 3199.916
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 3
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 7
initial apicid : 7
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr
bogomips : 6400.30
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
matt@libvirt01:/$