2008/5/8 Gerry Reno <greno@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Gerry Reno wrote: > > Here's what I found so far: > In BIOS there is a setting "AMD Cool n Quiet". I thought this was some > type of fan thing. It is not. It controls the cpu speed. So I disable > this and now dmesg and /proc/cpuinfo both show same at 2510 MHz. And I try > creating a new F9 VM with 1 VCPU. The install now seems to run at a normal > speed but still I cannot get F9 to install in VM. It says partition table > on /dev/sda is unreadable and it needs to initialize. So I say yes and it > sits there for about 10 mins until it give you an error (i/o error on > device) retry,ignore,cancel. No choice helps. So I try with F7 as well and > same thing, it cannot initialize the virtual drive (mine is file-based). > > > I think SELinux is causing some problems with KVM: > > log: > May 7 18:29:54 grp-01-10-01 yum: Installed: kvm-65-1.fc9.i386 > May 7 23:00:14 grp-01-10-01 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing qemu-kvm > (qemu_t) "write" to ./MX_1-0.vmdk (var_t). For complete SELinux messages. > run sealert -l c5d1da68-2969-4a93-843c-774a346e4705 > May 7 23:29:12 grp-01-10-01 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing qemu-kvm > (qemu_t) "write" to ./MX_1-0.vmdk (var_t). For complete SELinux messages. > run sealert -l c5d1da68-2969-4a93-843c-774a346e4705 > May 8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing qemu-kvm > (qemu_t) "write" to ./MX_1-0.vmdk (var_t). For complete SELinux messages. > run sealert -l e1adef63-a2c9-4e8e-a834-14cc9df77259 > May 8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed > May 8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed > May 8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed > May 8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed > May 8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed > May 8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed > May 8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed > May 8 12:20:56 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed > May 8 12:21:06 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: 3997: cpu0 kvm_set_msr_common: > MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS 0x0, nop > May 8 12:21:06 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: 3997: cpu1 kvm_set_msr_common: > MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS 0x0, nop > May 8 12:21:06 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: 3997: cpu2 kvm_set_msr_common: > MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS 0x0, nop > May 8 12:21:07 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: 3997: cpu3 kvm_set_msr_common: > MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS 0x0, nop > May 8 12:21:08 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: emulating exchange as write > May 8 12:26:20 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed > May 8 12:26:20 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed > May 8 12:26:20 grp-01-10-01 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing qemu-kvm > (qemu_t) "write" to ./TEST1.img (var_t). For complete SELinux messages. run > sealert -l 15c2312c-dd5f-44fd-b2d1-b9fb90188284 > May 8 12:26:20 grp-01-10-01 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing qemu-kvm > (qemu_t) "write" to ./f9-preview-i386-dvd.iso (var_t). For complete SELinux > messages. run sealert -l af4954a1-8379-403d-bc1b-ff6b1e0041df > May 8 12:26:26 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: 4075: cpu0 kvm_set_msr_common: > MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS 0x0, nop > May 8 13:28:25 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed > May 8 13:28:25 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: guest NX capability removed > May 8 13:28:25 grp-01-10-01 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing qemu-kvm > (qemu_t) "write" to ./TEST1.img (var_t). For complete SELinux messages. run > sealert -l 15c2312c-dd5f-44fd-b2d1-b9fb90188284 > May 8 13:28:25 grp-01-10-01 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing qemu-kvm > (qemu_t) "write" to ./f9-preview-i386-dvd.iso (var_t). For complete SELinux > messages. run sealert -l af4954a1-8379-403d-bc1b-ff6b1e0041df > May 8 13:29:35 grp-01-10-01 kernel: kvm: 4353: cpu0 kvm_set_msr_common: > MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS 0x0, nop > > > I ran a fixfiles on all filesystems but still get the messages. > > > Regards, > Gerry > Try the following: "chcon -t virt_image_t ./f9-preview-i386-dvd.iso" before running qemu-kvm. tom -- Tom London -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list