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#1 2009-11-25 03:17:42

tony5429
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Registered: 2006-03-28
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[SOLVED] KVM Broken After Switch from KVM to Qemu-KVM

Since I made the switch from KVM 88-1 to Qemu-KVM 0.11.0-1 yesterday, my virtual Win XP64 guest OS will not load; I just get a black screen. When I try safe mode, I can see that it is getting stuck on "acpitabl.dat."

Here's the line I've always used to start it up,

qemu-kvm -boot c -m 512 -hda win_xp.img -net nic,vlan=1 -net user,vlan=1 -localtime -k en-us -soundhw ac97 -vga std

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Last edited by tony5429 (2009-11-27 05:03:43)

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#2 2009-11-26 17:43:49

tony5429
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Registered: 2006-03-28
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Re: [SOLVED] KVM Broken After Switch from KVM to Qemu-KVM

Hrm...well, I downgraded back to KVM 88-1 and I am having the same problem... Does anyone have any ideas?

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#3 2009-11-26 22:21:44

siot
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Registered: 2009-11-10
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Re: [SOLVED] KVM Broken After Switch from KVM to Qemu-KVM

I see that my user was not on 'kvm' group after the switch.
When I added my user to de kvm group Qemu-KVM works like a charm.

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#4 2009-11-27 05:03:30

tony5429
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Re: [SOLVED] KVM Broken After Switch from KVM to Qemu-KVM

Thanks! That was it!

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