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

[Gianluca Cecchi]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Gianluca Cecchi
<gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello,
> using Fedora 14 and virt-preview.
> I notice that my windows 7 guest 32bit has neither acpi nor apic enabled.
> trying to enable one of them in virt-manager it gets automatically
> reset and in virt-manager.log I get:
> [Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:13:54 virt-manager 17300] DEBUG
> (libvirtobject:144) Redefine requested, but XML didn't change!


BTW: even if I don't see the check box selected in virt-manager window
and I cannot change it, my xml does contain this:
  <features>
    <acpi/>
    <pae/>
  </features>

but when I run the guest, the command produced is:
/usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc-0.14 -enable-kvm -m 1536 -smp
1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name w7test -uuid
de5dbc9e-14f0-f56b-8e8a-4f4986d61ad8 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev
socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/w7test.monitor,server,nowait
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime
-boot order=dc,menu=off -drive if=none,id=drive-fdc0-0-0,format=raw
-global isa-fdc.driveA=drive-fdc0-0-0 -drive
if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device
ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -drive
file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/w7test.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,format=raw
-device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0
-netdev tap,fd=24,id=hostnet0 -device
virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:d3:8e:29,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
-chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device
isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -device
usb-tablet,id=input0 -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing
-vga qxl -device AC97,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device
virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5