kqemu and Ubuntu

[Ante Karamatić]

On 07.04.2010 21:43, Dustin Kirkland wrote:

> As discussed at UDS-Lucid in November last year, upstream QEMU has
> completely dropped support for kqemu, and consequently will not be
> available in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.  The decision has been discussed at
> length in several bug reports, mailing list posts, and in IRC.  I have
> compiled a set of FAQs here, to help address the recurring questions:
>   * http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/04/kqemu-and-ubuntu.html
>   * https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kqemu

OK. So kqemu was dropped, that's fine. But what about systems that don't 
have VT-enabled hardware but would still like to use vmbuilder?

In 8.04 it was possible to use 'ubuntu-vm-builder qemu hardy', but now 
only (forgetting about vmware and xen for a moment) 'vmbuilder kvm 
hardy' works. Without kvm module initialized, this operation fails. I'd 
like to have virtualized systems inside of already virtualized system 
(therefor, no hardware acceleration). Errors:

libvir: Domain Config error : internal error no supported architecture 
for os type 'hvm'

libvirt.libvirtError: internal error no supported architecture for os 
type 'hvm'

Basically, vmbuilder does the whole work, but dies on XML generation (if 
you use --debug, you actually get to see generated xml). And if XML is 
created by hand, libvirt starts it with command:

LC_ALL=C 
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin 
QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/qemu -S -M pc-0.12 -no-kvm -m 512 -smp 1 
-name test -uuid 7d78cbee-3832-ca61-ffdb-d3ec63c8db19 -chardev 
socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/test.monitor,server,nowait 
-monitor chardev:monitor -no-acpi -boot c -drive 
file=/home/ivoks/VM/test/tmpkP59W4.qcow2,if=ide,index=0,boot=on -net 
none -serial none -parallel none -usb -vnc 192.168.79.2:0 -vga cirrus

And this fails (system never loads grub completely). But if 'boot=on' 
(in drive setup) is removed or replaced with 'boot=off' and then started 
by hand, everything works fine.

Is all of this on purpose or is it a bug (or bugs)?