[fedora-virt] Creating a F14 VM on a F13 host crashes host

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 06:22:51AM -0500, Frederick N. Brier wrote:
> When I try to install an F14 VM on on an up-to-date F13 host using
> virt-manager.  It crashes the host.  I have tried this twice and it
> happened in exactly the same spot.  After you specify the ISO medium
> and the VM OS type, version, and an LVM volume, it starts to boot,
> you select the Install option and then it crashes.  Has anyone else
> seen this?  I might expect a failure to create a VM, but not to
> crash the entire host OS.  The host has had over 5 VMs and never had
> a problem.

As Justin said, give us the precise versions of all relevant host
components: kernel, qemu-kvm, libvirt.

What is the libvirt XML for the guest?

What sort of hardware is this?  (KVM capable?)

Is there any console message when it crashes?

Is the host filesystem running ext4?

Rich.

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