I had some very strange issues running qemu/kvm with ubuntu, lacked the time to track it down and had to move on to a different solution. I cannot say it was qmeu/kvm or what, but that whole project was scrapped.

MAde me sad too, because proxmox and ceph were exceeding neat to manage. but if my VM's get wonky and have issues then i cannot use that solution.

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:
Curious if anyone is using (successfully) ubuntu 14.04 with kvm, virt-manager, qemu, spice, etc.

I ask because out of frustration with commercial vendors not supporting virtualbox (meh oracle, can't blame em), and finally trying kvm now as they have an image for that, just to launch this darn thing.  KVM is pretty new to me, or modern iterations of it, and it incessantly refuses to import or build a vm, seemingly due to an issue with this spice reporting it's not built in.  Seemed an easy enough install on the surface....

Did some research, spice as the graphic acceleration for console video was new to me, seems more of a pain than worth, but I can't seem to work around it and simply not use it.  The module is there, yet the binary reports it's not, no one else complains on teh googles since 12.04 with the last major bug, but this simply refuses to work.  The old references from 12.04 just indicate it had to symlink a different binary, the scripts were just broken with hard references, but that isn't the case.  This simply says spice isn't built into it, when every other thing seems to indicate it is.

Tracking it back, some suggestions were to use the vnc lib vs. spice, and that starts complaining that I think ubuntu screwed up the apparmor profile as it's denying when I attempt the vnc display profile.  Removing apparmor just breaks libvirt and causes a segfault internally without apparmor hook completion.  I ended up wasting a better part of today, and finally giving up in frustration, just to get a stinking f5 load-balancer appliance to boot.

Ugh.  Starting to hate ubuntu again, and f5.

Anyone at all use ubuntu 14.04 with kvm successfully with or without these quirks?  Weird I don't see any trace of the same issues from others, but really can't see how this is something I did wrong following from a few diff "how to" guides on ubuntu 14.04 was was just installing packages and a re-login for group perms.

-mb
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