[arch-general] KVM troubles

Joan Aymà joanayma at gmail.com
Mon Nov 23 09:38:25 UTC 2015


El 23/11/15 a les 06:59, Luna Moonbright ha escrit:
> 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"

Could you attach all xml config for this VM? Also /proc/cpuinfo output
may help.
>
> If it helps: the ISO I am trying to boot from
> is the live disk that comes with "Hacking:
> The Art of Exploitation"

Have you tried other ISOs? Try with arch install disk ;) or a derivated
with x11.

You say it shows a black screen and a cursor, so BIOS/UEFI booted,
kernel booted but no graphic enverontment. First try another ISO.

>
> Thanks in advance.
>

You're welcome.

-- 

Joan.


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