Greetings Daniel, > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2021 at 6:39 PM > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "daggs" <daggs@xxxxxxx> > Cc: "Martin Kletzander" <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx>, libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: issues with vm after upgrade > > On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 05:34:53PM +0200, daggs wrote: > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2021 at 6:29 PM > > > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > To: "daggs" <daggs@xxxxxxx> > > > Cc: "Martin Kletzander" <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx>, libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: Re: issues with vm after upgrade > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 05:21:52PM +0200, daggs wrote: > > > > Greetings Daniel, > > > > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2021 at 4:12 PM > > > > > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > To: "daggs" <daggs@xxxxxxx> > > > > > Cc: "Martin Kletzander" <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx>, libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > > Subject: Re: issues with vm after upgrade > > > > > > > > > > The <audio> element just refers to the *host* backend used for audio > > > > > playback. It would not affect guest hardware. Further, this has always > > > > > existed - it just wasn't exposed in the XML previously. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > the upgrade changed something, here is the qemu cmd before the upgrade: https://dpaste.com/F2N5T8CT8 > > > > here is after https://dpaste.com/F2N5T8CT8 > > > > > > Those links are both the same I'm afraid > > > > > > > Duh! my bad! > > good log: http://dpaste.com/F2N5T8CT8 > > bad log: http://dpaste.com/6ECUHD2J8 > > The new log has a CLI flag > > -audiodev id=audio1,driver=none > > but the old log has an env variable > > QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none > > which should be functionally identical, as QEMU will parse them both > to the same internal config. > > The obvious difference in the logs which can cause your guest to fail > is the different QEMU version. The old log shows QEMU 5.2.0, while the > new log shows QEMU 6.0.0 > thanks for the help, I went to look why the efi fw and found out that the nvram entry in /etc/libvirt/eqmu.conf was deleted upon update. I'm sure fixing this will solve he boot issue, hopefully audio issue too. Thanks, Dagg.