Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.12.1

Ingmar Schraub
2009-12-21T08:41:14Z

Apparently it doesn't matter what type of VM (Windows or Linux) you
start, the same problem happens.

For the time being, I reverted back to qemu-kvm-0.12.0-rc2

But of course I would like to move forward to the new version. So any
suggestions are welcome.

Thanks, Ingmar

Ingmar Schraub wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after upgrading from qemu-kvm-0.12.0-rc2 to qemu-kvm-0.12.1 I cannot
> start my Windows 7 (64Bit) VM any more. I get the following error on
> start-up:
>
> rom: requested regions overlap (rom vapic.bin. free=0x0000000000000600,
> addr=0x0000000000000000)
> rom loading failed
>
> I used to run it with this command line:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 -k de -enable-kvm -usb -drive
> file=/home/ingmar/kvm/windows7.qcow2,if=ide,boot=on,cache=none -net
> nic,macaddr=DE:AD:BE:EF:28:26,vlan=1,model=e1000 -net
> tap,script=/etc/kvm/qemu-ifup,vlan=1 -m 1024 -vnc :3 -boot c
>
> Any idea what is wrong here? It worked fine with all previous qemu-kvm
> versions.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Ingmar
>
>
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> qemu-kvm-0.12.1 is now available. This release is is based on the
>> upstream qemu 0.12.1, plus kvm-specific enhancements. Please see the
>> original qemu 0.12.1 release announcement for details.
>>
>> This release can be used with the kvm kernel modules provided by your
>> distribution kernel, or by the modules in the kvm-kmod package, such as
>> kvm-kmod-2.6.32.
>>
>> Changes from qemu-kvm-0.11.1
>> - merge qemu 0.12.1
>> - many changes, including:
>> - s390 support
>> - live migration: support migration with non shared storage
>> - live migration: make save/restore data driven (VMState)
>> - monitor: introduce machine-protocol (QMP)
>> - qdev: convert many devices, support reading config from file
>> - pci: infrastructure to support 64-bit busses
>> - net: introduce -netdev to support point-to-point networking
>> - net: add support for GSO and checksum offload
>> - tons of bug fixes throughout the code base
>> - many kvm-specific bug fixes
>>
>> http://www.linux-kvm.org
>>
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