Re: [fedora-virt] windows 7 guest and acpi/apic with virt-preview

[Emre Erenoglu]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Gianluca Cecchi
<gianluca.cecchi(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:

>  On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Cole Robinson
> <crobinso(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  wrote:
>  > That's a virt-manager bug, fixed in the version in f15/rawhide,
>  > virt-manager-0.8.7-1. virt-preview will likely get that version soon as
>  > well.
>  >
>  > - Cole
>  Ok, thanks.
>  Is it a bug of only virt-manager setting or also involving qemu-kvm
>  command line?
>  I try to explain better:
>  - viewing the xml definition, I can see that my vm indeed has the acpi
>  setting in features section
>  - does this mean that win7 starts with acpi enabled from qemu-kvm
>  point of view?
>
>  running with --help I can see
>  QEMU emulator version 0.14.0 (qemu-kvm-0.14.0), Copyright (c)
>  2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
>
>  and
>  i386 target only:
>  -win2k-hack     use it when installing Windows 2000 to avoid a disk full
>  bug
>  -no-fd-bootchk  disable boot signature checking for floppy disks
>  -no-acpi        disable ACPI
>
>  Does this mean that acpi is set by default in qemu-kvm and when in an
>  updated virt-manager I uncheck acpi setting this will involve to run
>  the qemu-kvm process with "-no-acpi" ?
>
>  what is it exactly intended with "i386 target"?
>  In recent virt-manager, even if I create a 32bit win7 guest, by
>  default the hypervisor settings are:
>  Hypervisor: kvm
>  Architecture: x86_64
>  Emulator: /usr/bin/qemu-kvm
>
>  I have to force i686 during guest creation....
>  Thanks,
>  Gianluca
>
>  BTW: I notice that while I'm creating a test vm to experiment, in
>  version  virt-manager-0.8.6-1.fc14.noarch, I'm unable to delete the
>  newly created guest (the option is greyed out). i have to run
>  virsh undefine testvm
>  Instead, pre-existing guests have the option to delete...
>  Is this already tracked or do I have to open a bug?
>  
Gianluca, what does the device manager of the virtual system show as your
computer? Is it ACPI Multiprocessor PC?  Can you confirm if qemu enabled the
ACPI support by default.

-- 
Emre