Nexenta 3.0.1 fails to install

[Nigel Horne]

The latest git version of qemu (commit 420b6c317de87890e06225de6e2f8af7bf714df0) fails to boot Nexenta3.0.1. I don't know if this is a bug in nextenta, or in QEMU or both.

You can obtain a bootable image of Nextenta from http://www.nexenta.org/releases/nexenta-core-platform_3.0.1-b134_x86.iso.zip

Host: Linux/x86_64 gcc4.5 ./configure --enable-linux-aio --enable-io-thread --enable-kvm

qemu-img create nexenta3.0.1 3G
qemu -hda nexenta3.0.1 -cdrom nexenta-core-platform3.0.1-b134x86.iso -boot d -k en-us -m 256

Boots to grub OK, but when you hit install you get panic[cpu0]/thread=fec226c0: vmem_hash_delete(d4404690, d445abc0, 0): bad free.

You get the same error with or without -enable-kvm

[Nigel Horne (njh-bandsman)]

I have found that I can get to the installer if I give the -no-acpi argument.

As others have noted, Netexnta is very slow. To get any sort of speed I used the 32-bit version and disabled QEMU disc caching, thus:

qemu -drive file=nexenta3.0.1,index=0,media=disk,cache=unsafe -cdrom nexenta-core-platform_3.0.1-b134_x86.iso -boot d -k en-us -m 512 -enable-kvm -no-acpi

Even then, performance is painful.

[Thomas Huth (th-huth)]

Triaging old bug tickets ... Is this issue still reproducible with the latest version of QEMU?

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