Fantastic, I love that book and am wanting to get the rest of the way through it. I didn't realize it was such an issue in KVM. I think it works in virtual box, but it would be nice to get it installed on KVM so me and a few guys can set up a class on exploitation. I'll keep working on it to. On November 27, 2015 7:00:00 PM EST, Kyle Terrien <kyleterrien@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/22/2015 09:59 PM, Luna Moonbright wrote:
Does anyone here have experience troubleshooting KVM installs in arch?
I am using virsh and virt-manager, the VM seems to successfully boot, but the virtualization window is only showing a black screen with a cursor in the top left of the window.
(on the host) journelctl -xe only shows one related error: "libvirtd[298]: this function is not supported by the connection driver: virConnectGetCPUModuleNames"
If it helps: the ISO I am trying to boot from is the live disk that comes with "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation"
Thanks in advance.
I have the same book ("Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", 2nd Edition). I just successfully booted and installed the Live CD in KVM.
The CD is a very old (EOL) custom Ubuntu Live CD (Feisty Fawn). In virt-manager, I selected the "Ubuntu Feisty Fawn" preset, and that changed some of the defaults.
- The Video card is set to VMVGA (I think this is the problem. The default is normally QXL, which is a really new super-fast paravirtualized interface iirc.) - The hard disk is an IDE hard disk. - Fiesty Fawn does not support the EvTouch Tablet.
For some reason, the LiveCD's bootloader took a long time to draw to the screen. I'm not sure why, but after I booted, everything seemed fine. I installed and rebooted.
The repositories have been archived. You will need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change every instance of "us.archive.ubuntu.com" with "old-releases.ubuntu.com".
After this, I was able to install openssh-server and vim-gtk on the VM.
I still need to figure out why sshfs won't work (fuse: failed to exec fusermount: Permission denied).
I think the problem you are having is related to the QXL video driver.
Thanks for giving me an excuse to dust-off the CD. I really should find more time to read through that book. It's a great book.
If you are curious, the XML dump of my VM follows. (MAC address and UUID are obfuscated.)
--Kyle
<domain type='kvm'> <name>hacking</name> <uuid>13b0cfef-b878-470f-a690-000000000000</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>2097152</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>2097152</currentMemory> <vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.4'>hvm</type> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <vmport state='off'/> </features> <cpu mode='custom' match='exact'> <model fallback='allow'>Nehalem</model> </cpu> <clock offset='utc'> <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/> <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <pm> <suspend-to-mem enabled='no'/> <suspend-to-disk enabled='no'/> </pm> <devices> <emulator>/usr/sbin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/> <source file='/data/libvirt/images/hacking.qcow2'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <target dev='hdb' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='1'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci1'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x7'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci1'> <master startport='0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci2'> <master startport='2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'> <master startport='4'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/> <controller type='ide' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </controller> <interface type='network'> <mac address='52:54:00:??:??:??'/> <source network='default'/> <model type='rtl8139'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target port='0'/> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <channel type='spicevmc'> <target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='spice' autoport='yes'> <image compression='off'/> </graphics> <sound model='ich6'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </sound> <video> <model type='vmvga' vram='16384' heads='1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </video> <redirdev bus='usb' type='spicevmc'> </redirdev> <redirdev bus='usb' type='spicevmc'> </redirdev> <memballoon model='virtio'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> </domain>
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