On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 06:32:30 -0700, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 09:32:28AM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 15:19:07 -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote: > > > # virsh create test.xml > > > error: Failed to create domain from test.xml > > > error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: > > > 2023-04-05T20:36:19.564896Z qemu-system-aarch64: Property > > > 'integratorcp-machine.acpi' not found > > > > This is a known issue which should be already fixed if you use the > > upcoming qemu version. > > > > Historically ACPI was controled via '-no-acpi' which is issued when you > > don't use the '<acpi/>' feature element in the definition. Also > > historically it was only used on x86. With development of the 'virt' > > machine type for arm which does use acpi this was un-carefully extended > > to aarch64 as well where it didn't work with non-virt machines. > > > > Now with the latest qemu which reports which machine type actually > > support ACPI we avoid use of '-no-acpi' for those which don't support > > it. > > > > Unfortunately the workaround of adding <acpi/> element to definition for > > a machine which doesn't have it doesn't work either, because a further > > validation check forces you to configure uefi if you want acpi. > > And even if you try to pile another workaround on top of that one by > configuring the VM to use EFI, the end result is just a QEMU error: > > Property 'integratorcp-machine.pflash0' not found > > Further proof that was never possible to build a useful working > integratorcp-based VM with libvirt. It was most likely possible before the time when ACPI was added to 'virt' machine because you didn't need to configure a pflash. But that was a long time ago.