F9 and KVM

[Gerry Reno]

Gerry Reno wrote:
> Here's what I found so far:
>   In BIOS there is a setting "AMD Cool n Quiet".  I thought this was 
> some type of fan thing.  It is not.  It controls the cpu speed.  So I 
> disable this and now dmesg and /proc/cpuinfo both show same at 2510 
> MHz.  And I try creating a new F9 VM with 1 VCPU.  The install now 
> seems to run at a normal speed but still I cannot get F9 to install in 
> VM.  It says partition table on /dev/sda is unreadable and it needs to 
> initialize.  So I say yes and it sits there for about 10 mins until it 
> give you an error (i/o error on device) retry,ignore,cancel.  No 
> choice helps.  So I try with F7 as well and same thing, it cannot 
> initialize the virtual drive (mine is file-based).
>

I think SELinux is causing some problems with KVM:

log:
May  7 18:29:54 grp-01-10-01 yum: Installed: kvm-65-1.fc9.i386
May  7 23:00:14 grp-01-10-01 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing 
qemu-kvm (qemu_t) "write" to ./MX_1-0.vmdk (var_t). For complete SELinux 
messages. run sealert -l c5d1da68-2969-4a93-843c-774a346e4705
May  7 23:29:12 grp-01-10-01 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing 
qemu-kvm (qemu_t) "write" to ./MX_1-0.vmdk (var_t). For complete SELinux 
messages. run sealert -l c5d1da68-2969-4a93-843c-774a346e4705
May  8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing 
qemu-kvm (qemu_t) "write" to ./MX_1-0.vmdk (var_t). For complete SELinux 
messages. run sealert -l e1adef63-a2c9-4e8e-a834-14cc9df77259
May  8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed
May  8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed
May  8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed
May  8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed
May  8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed
May  8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed
May  8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed
May  8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed
May  8 12:21:06 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: 3997: cpu0 kvm_set_msr_common: 
MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS 0x0, nop
May  8 12:21:06 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: 3997: cpu1 kvm_set_msr_common: 
MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS 0x0, nop
May  8 12:21:06 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: 3997: cpu2 kvm_set_msr_common: 
MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS 0x0, nop
May  8 12:21:07 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: 3997: cpu3 kvm_set_msr_common: 
MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS 0x0, nop
May  8 12:21:08 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: emulating exchange as write
May  8 12:26:20 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed
May  8 12:26:20 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed
May  8 12:26:20 grp-01-10-01 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing 
qemu-kvm (qemu_t) "write" to ./TEST1.img (var_t). For complete SELinux 
messages. run sealert -l 15c2312c-dd5f-44fd-b2d1-b9fb90188284
May  8 12:26:20 grp-01-10-01 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing 
qemu-kvm (qemu_t) "write" to ./f9-preview-i386-dvd.iso (var_t). For 
complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 
af4954a1-8379-403d-bc1b-ff6b1e0041df
May  8 12:26:26 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: 4075: cpu0 kvm_set_msr_common: 
MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS 0x0, nop
May  8 13:28:25 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed
May  8 13:28:25 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed
May  8 13:28:25 grp-01-10-01 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing 
qemu-kvm (qemu_t) "write" to ./TEST1.img (var_t). For complete SELinux 
messages. run sealert -l 15c2312c-dd5f-44fd-b2d1-b9fb90188284
May  8 13:28:25 grp-01-10-01 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing 
qemu-kvm (qemu_t) "write" to ./f9-preview-i386-dvd.iso (var_t). For 
complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 
af4954a1-8379-403d-bc1b-ff6b1e0041df
May  8 13:29:35 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: 4353: cpu0 kvm_set_msr_common: 
MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS 0x0, nop


I ran a fixfiles on all filesystems but still get the messages.


Regards,
Gerry

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