On 06/23/2014 08:32 AM, Anthony Gabrielson wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to get a get a Linux PowerPC distribution running with Qemu and I'm
> getting an error that Google has been unable to resolve. Virt-Manager is
> giving me this error:
>
> Unable to complete install: 'internal error Process exited while reading
> console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/18
> Error: Cirrus VGA not available
> '
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 45, in cb_wrapper
> callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1909, in do_install
> guest.start_install(False, meter=meter)
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1239, in
> start_install
> noboot)
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1307, in
> _create_guest
> dom = self.conn.createLinux(start_xml or final_xml, 0)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 2475, in createLinux
> if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
> libvirtError: internal error Process exited while reading console log output:
> char device redirected to /dev/pts/18
> Error: Cirrus VGA not available
>
> My host OS is Debian Wheezy and the guest OS will be Debian Jessie PPC (if I
> can get past this error). I have installed qemu, qemu-kvm, and virt-manager.
> With that said, qemu-kvm is off so I can emulate non-x86 architectures. I am
> running virt-manager with sudo.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts?
>
Latest virt-manager has some ppc default fixes, however I've only successfully
made ppc64 -M pseries work, and at the libvirt level that's what has received
the most testing. Libvirt may not even know how to generate valid command
lines for other qemu PPC machine types.
- Cole
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