[Qemu-devel] [Bug 760976] Re: Nexenta 3.0.1 fails to install

[Nigel Horne]

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.

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Title:
  Nexenta 3.0.1 fails to install

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  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