Re: [Qemu-devel] 3.1.0-rc{0,1} doesn't start

[Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>]

On 11/19/2018 01:35 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * balducci@units.it (balducci@units.it) wrote:
>> hi
>>
>> thanks for taking the time to reply
>>
>> Dr. David Alan Gilbert writes:
>>>> I suspect that this might be some problem on my side, as I couldn't
>>>> find any similar report (apart some old (qemu-2.8.50) threads, that
>>>> didn't help)
>>>
>>> Not necessarily; can you tell me:
>>>    a) At what point does it fail - immediately when booting the guest?
>>>       Some time during the boot? Later?
>>>    b) What guest does it happen on?
>>
>> a) the error happens almost immediately; I mean: when I run qemu from an
>>     xterm, it doesn't even popup its window: it just dumps the error
>>     message to the terminal and stops
>> b) the guest is an old windows XP OS; but, as I say above, all goes as
>>     if qemu doesn't even load the OS image (at least this is my
>>     impression)
>>
> A colleague has confirmed this on his FX-8320 on Fedora 29 with the
> virt-next repo;  so it's nothing that's special about your machine;
> it's 3.1 that really doesn't like the old AMDs.
> 

Also we received a similar report in Fedora bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1651021

Thanks,
Cole