[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#810923: Bug#810923: virtinst: virt-install fails to create working ppc64 (& other non-native) VMs

[Guido Günther]

severity 810923 normal
reassigen 810923 qemu-system-ppc
affects 810923 libvirt-daemon
subscribe 810923 agx at sigxcpu.org
thanks

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 02:22:26PM -0500, Robbie Harwood wrote:
[..snip..]
> 2016-01-13 18:49:40.822+0000: starting up libvirt version: 1.3.0, package: 2 (Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:04:12 +0100), qemu version: 2.5.0 (Debian 1:2.5+dfsg-3), hostname: thriss
> LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin HOME=/root USER=root LOGNAME=root QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64 -name rhel6-ppc64 -S -machine pseries-2.5,accel=tcg,usb=off -cpu POWER8 -m 2048 -realtime mlock=off -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 98d818e6-b5c5-43b1-8381-da6ca420aec8 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-rhel6-ppc64/monitor.sock,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device ich9-usb-ehci1,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4.0x7 -device ich9-usb-uhci1,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x4 -device ich9-usb-uhci2,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4.0x1 -device ich9-usb-uhci3,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=4,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4.0x2 -device spapr-vscsi,id=scsi0,reg=0x2000 -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel6-ppc64.img,if=none,id=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,format=raw -device scsi-hd,bus=scsi0.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=0,drive=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,id=scsi0-0-0-0,bootindex=2 -drive file=/home/bos/rharwood/iso/RHEL-6.7-20150702.0-Server-ppc64-dvd1.iso,if=none,id=drive-scsi0-0-0-1,readonly=on,format=raw -device scsi-cd,bus=scsi0.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=1,drive=drive-scsi0-0-0-1,id=scsi0-0-0-1,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=29,id=hostnet0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:3a:c7:37,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device spapr-vty,chardev=charserial0,reg=0x30000000 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -device usb-kbd,id=input1 -device usb-mouse,id=input2 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -device VGA,id=video0,vgamem_mb=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1 -chardev spicevmc,id=charredir0,name=usbredir -device usb-redir,chardev=charredir0,id=redir0 -chardev spicevmc,id=charredir1,name=usbredir -device usb-redir,chardev=charredir1,id=redir1 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 -object rng-random,id=objrng0,filename=/dev/random -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=objrng0,id=rng0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8 -msg timestamp=on
> char device redirected to /dev/pts/3 (label charserial0)
> qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0xfffffffff92169f8

This looks like a problem in QEMU. If it's triggered by the above
configuration created by libvirt I cannot tell. You can try to reduce
the config to a working one by running it in the console to track this
down.

Cheers,
 -- Guido