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

[Cole Robinson]

On 03/30/2011 06:21 PM, Gianluca Cecchi 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!
> 

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

> Is there any reason, such as not supported and automatically black
> listed in any way... or a bug?
> At the moment I have 3 guests: w2k3, w7 and centos 5 and this problem
> is present for all of them...
> 
> I noticed this because after half an hour of inactivity my windows 7
> went in black screen and no other way than powering off...
> I saw that by default sleep was enabled after 30 minutes. At first I'm
> disabling it, but I think that actually the problem of this freeze
> could depend by acpi not enabled...
> so I discovered the problem
> virt-manager-0.8.6-1.fc14.noarch
> libvirt-0.8.8-2.fc14.x86_64
> 
> Connecting an iso cd or changing network device type or other things
> works ok. it seems only these two settings....
> Gianluca
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