[Bug 607884] [NEW] 10.04 amd64 libvirt+qemu fails to install Win Server 08 x64 or Win7 x64

[Matt Keys]

Public bug reported:

This is on a fresh install of server 10.04 amd64. I selected VM host and
SSH upon install, added virt-manager, virt-viewer, xterm, and ubuntu-vm-
builder afterwards. I have changed networking to bridge eth0, and set
libvirtxml.tmpl to use br0 by default. Using virt-manager locally on the
host I attempt to install Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 from DVD .ISO. I
selected "Windows" and "Windows 2008" from the drop-down list, set it 1
CPU, 4096 MB RAM, 40GB disk (I tried both thin and full provisioned
disk). It successfully creates the disk, but when it goes to create the
domain it fails with this message:

Unable to complete install '<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> operation failed: failed to retrieve chardev info in qemu with 'info chardev'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1436, in do_install
    dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/virtinst/Guest.py", line 660, in start_install
    return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/virtinst/Guest.py", line 758, in _do_install
    self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 1097, in createLinux
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: operation failed: failed to retrieve chardev info in qemu with 'info chardev'
'

I deleted the vm image, then attempted a Ubuntu server 10.04 i386
installation which worked fine. I then attempted a Windows 7 x64
installation. I didn't receive the same message, but it gave me the
"blue screen of death" with the message of:

STOP: 0x0000001E (0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000,
0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)

Windows XP 32bit installs just fine.

** Affects: libvirt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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10.04 amd64 libvirt+qemu fails to install Win Server 08 x64 or Win7 x64
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607884
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