F15 on KVM/libvirt

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Apr 14 17:35:26 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 11:18 -0600, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> Has anybody tested F15 on QEMU/KVM?

Yup, multiple times.

> I'm trying to install from the F15 alpha DVD on KVM virtual machine I manage 

Try with Beta RC2 instead (which is actually the Beta).

> through libvirt. I can boot and install F14 on this exact VM, but with F15 I 
> get the initial menu, and when I hit enter, it stops with the following 
> messages. I tried the usual "noacpi noapic", but get the same result.
> 
> 
> sys_write
> do_copy
> flush_buffer
> gunzip
> nofill
> gunzip
> unpack_to_rootfs
> flush_buffer
> error+0x0/0x13
> populate_rootfs+0x40/0x215
> pci_get_subsys+0x6d/0x76
> printk+0x2d/0x2f
> pci_apply_final_quirks+0xd9/0xf2
> af_unix_init+0x46/0x4d
> do_one_initcall+0x8c/0x140
> populate_rootfs+0x8c/0x140
> kernel_init+0x1e8/0x274
> kernel_init+0x0/0x274
> kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10

I don't recall having that issue even with Alpha, but yeah, try the
Beta.
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