[ovirt-users] Qemu prevents vm from starting up properly

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 1:14 PM, M R <gr8nextmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I did check logs from hosts, but didnt notice anything that would help me. I
> can copy paste logs later.
>
> I was not trying to get qemu crash vm.
> I'm trying to add new functionalities with qemu.
>
> I wasnt sure if my syntax was correct, so I copy pasted the example command
> for spice from that website. And it still behaves similarly.
>
> My conclusion is that qemu cmdline is setup wrong or it's not working at
> all. But I dont know how to check that.

Please check/share /var/log/libvirt/qemu/* and /var/log/vdsm/* . Thanks.

>
> On 27 Sep 2017 12:32, "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:32 AM, M R <gr8nextmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > I have followed instructions in
>> > https://www.ovirt.org/develop/developer-guide/vdsm/hook/qemucmdline/
>> >
>> > After adding any command for qemu cmdline, vm will try to start, but
>> > will
>> > immediately shutdown.
>> >
>> > Is this a bug?
>>
>> If you intended, with the params you passed, to make qemu fail, for
>> whatever
>> reason (debugging qemu?), then it's not a bug :-) Otherwise, it is, but we
>> can't know where.
>>
>> > or is the information in the link insufficient?
>> > If it would be possible to confirm this and if there's a way to fix, I
>> > would
>> > really like to have step by step guide of how to get this working.
>>
>> Did you check relevant logs? vdsm/libvirt?
>>
>> Best,
>> --
>> Didi



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Didi