Created attachment 335898 [details] no /dev/kqemu error Description of problem: The presence of a sound card causes new and existing vm's to not start. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qemu-0.10-0.9.kvm20090310git.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.from virt-manager, start virtual machine 2. 3. Actual results: traceback Expected results: a running vm Additional info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 493, in run_domain vm.startup() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 558, in startup self.vm.create() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 287, in create if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: internal error unable to start guest: char device redirected to /dev/pts/2 char device redirected to /dev/pts/3 Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated: No such file or directory
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Can you include libvirt logs in bug report?
From qemu/WinXP.log: # cat WinXP.log LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin /usr/bin/qemu -S -M pc -m 512 -smp 1 -name WinXP -uuid 287ef482-42d8-09b9-ff60-e670fdb66aa9 -monitor pty -pidfile /var/run/libvirt/qemu//WinXP.pid -localtime -no-reboot -no-acpi -boot c -drive file=/home/images/WinXP.img,if=ide,index=0,boot=on -drive file=/home/images/F10-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2 -net nic,macaddr=54:52:00:4f:4b:70,vlan=0 -net tap,fd=17,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 -serial pty -parallel none -usb -usbdevice tablet -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -k en-us -soundhw es1370 char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 char device redirected to /dev/pts/3 Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated: No such file or directory Failed to stat runtime directory /root/.pulse/131ee6d298193471cb8674ac4963d95d:runtime: Permission denied -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
This should be fixed by: * Tue Mar 17 2009 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange> - 0.6.1-5.fc11 - Don't relabel shared/readonly disks - Disable sound cards when running sVirt See also bug #477955