Re: [Qemu-devel] libvirt fails to start guest with latest code checkins

[Bruce Rogers]

 >>> On 2/1/2013 at 03:16 PM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote: 
> Bruce Rogers <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> I get the following error message starting a linux guest via 
>> libvirt with the latest qemu git head: 
>>
>> brogers2:/ # virsh start sles11 
>> error: Failed to start domain sles11 
>> error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: WARNING: 
> failed to find acpi-dsdt.aml 
>> qemu-kvm: -device 
> virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:59:31:da,bus=pci.0,addr
> =0x3: Property 'virtio-net-pci.netdev' can't find value 'hostnet0' 
>>
>> I bisected it to this commit: 
> 
> Can you provide full details and logs?  I cannot reproduce this with a
> simple invocation.
> 
> The 'qemu-kvm:' suffix suggests that you aren't just using a straight
> qemu.git.  Are you carrying any patches that may be affecting this?

No patches are applied to  qemu-system-x86_64 as tested. (I just renamed
it to qemu-kvm and put it in /usr/bin for libvirt to find easily).

Here is the invocation by libvirt, as recorded in 
/var/log/libvirt/qemu/<vmname>:
2013-02-01 21:35:45.597+0000: starting up
LC_ALL=C 
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/root/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin
 HOME=/root USER=root LOGNAME=root TMPDIR=/tmp QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none 
/usr/bin/qemu-kvm -name sles11 -S -M pc -cpu 
core2duo,+lahf_lm,+pdcm,+xtpr,+cx16,+tm2,+est,+vmx,+ds_cpl,+dtes64,+pbe,+tm,+ht,+ss,+acpi,+ds
 -enable-kvm -m 512 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 
36975709-16ae-85e0-c90f-09eb4ec7dec3 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev 
socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/sles11.monitor,server,nowait 
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown 
-device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive 
file=/var/lib/kvm/images/sles11/disk0.raw,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw
 -device 
virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1
 -drive if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device 
ide-cd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -netdev 
tap,fd=18,id=hostnet0 -device 
virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:59:31:da,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 
-vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga cirrus -device 
virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5
WARNING: failed to find acpi-dsdt.aml
qemu-kvm: -device 
virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:59:31:da,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3:
 Property 'virtio-net-pci.netdev' can't find value 'hostnet0'
2013-02-01 21:35:46.491+0000: shutting down

Bruce