Re: KVM problems in sid
Jonathan Doe, 01/21/08 21:57:
> Hello,
>
> I have just noticed a problem with kvm in Debian Sid. Whenever I try to launch
> an instance of kvm, be it a disk virtual machine image I have already made or
> a livecd, a window for kvm appears and just stays blank.
>
> If I try to do the same thing with qemu everything works fine. If I try to do
> the same thing with kvm -no-kvm, everything works fine.
>
> I have the virtualization modules loaded (verified with lsmod). I am a member
> of the kvm group and /dev/kvm has the right permissions. kvm gives me no
> error messages, it just gives me a blank window.
>
> I can interact with the virtual console within kvm while it is not working,
> and if I load a vm snapshot everything starts working, but if I reboot the
> virtual machine it just hangs at the blank kvm screen again. Due to this, I
> suspected a problem with bochsbios, so I downgraded bochsbios, vgabios,
> openhackware, and qemu to previous working versions. There was no change in
> the behavior of kvm when I did this.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?
>
> MM
>
>
the problem is fixed in version kvm 58+dfsg-2
http://packages.qa.debian.org/k/kvm/news/20080121T110206Z.html
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