I recently bought an offlease Dell R410 (2 x Xeon E5620s) and intend to use it as a VM host using KVM. System currently only has 8Gb of ram but have additional on order. The server is running Ubuntu 16.04 server, and has qemu-kvm, libvirt-bin, virtinstall, bridge-utils, cpu-checker and running "kvm-ok" shows INFO: /dev/kvm exists, KVM acceleration can be used. I also have an R210 I've set up the same way and it works fine with two Win2012 server and two Ubuntu server guests running on it. On the R410, when I run virt-manager and set up an Ubuntu install from an ISO, the install boots to the installer but I cannot get past the language screen. I have to select "force off" to kill the vm. A check of the /var/log/libvirt/qemu/U1404VM2.log shows the following:
The large number of warnings make me wonder if this might be the issue, but being a newbie to KVM virtualization, I haven't
a clue.... Help??
Code:
2018-03-24 22:19:36.664+0000: starting up libvirt version: 1.3.1, package: 1ubuntu10.19 (Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@ubuntu.com> Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:51:15 -0500), qemu version: 2.5.0 (Debian 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.24), hostname: hands.frandin.org
LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice /usr/bin/kvm-spice -name U1404VM2 -S -machine pc-i440fx-xenial,accel=kvm,usb=off -cpu Westmere,+rdtscp,+pdpe1gb,+dca,+pcid,+pdcm,+xtpr,+tm2,+est,+smx,+vmx,+ds_cpl,+monitor,+dtes64,+pclmuldq,+pbe,+tm,+ht,+ss,+acpi,+ds,+vme -m 512 -realtime mlock=off -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 35ff5fff-0f25-4f7d-ba66-63eb504095b6 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-U1404VM2/monitor.sock,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard -no-hpet -no-shutdown -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s3=1 -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s4=1 -boot strict=on -device ich9-usb-ehci1,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5.0x7 -device ich9-usb-uhci1,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x5 -device ich9-usb-uhci2,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5.0x1 -device ich9-usb-uhci3,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=4,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5.0x2 -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/U1404VM2.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0 -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=2 -drive file=/home/dave/iso/ubuntu-14.04.3-server-amd64.iso,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,readonly=on -device ide-cd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=26,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=29 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:93:53:75,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing,image-compression=off,seamless-migration=on -device qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,vgamem_mb=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -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 -msg timestamp=on
char device redirected to /dev/pts/2 (label charserial0)
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.ds [bit 21]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.acpi [bit 22]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.ht [bit 28]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.tm [bit 29]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.pbe [bit 31]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.dtes64 [bit 2]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.monitor [bit 3]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.ds_cpl [bit 4]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.smx [bit 6]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.est [bit 7]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.tm2 [bit 8]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.xtpr [bit 14]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pdcm [bit 15]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.dca [bit 18]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.ds [bit 21]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.acpi [bit 22]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.ht [bit 28]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.tm [bit 29]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:EDX.pbe [bit 31]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.dtes64 [bit 2]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.monitor [bit 3]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.ds_cpl [bit 4]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.smx [bit 6]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.est [bit 7]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.tm2 [bit 8]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.xtpr [bit 14]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pdcm [bit 15]
warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.dca [bit 18]
main_channel_link: add main channel client
main_channel_handle_parsed: net test: latency 18.429000 ms, bitrate 1492711370 bps (1423.560495 Mbps)
red_dispatcher_set_cursor_peer:
inputs_connect: inputs channel client createa clue.... Help??