Re: QEMU unexpectedly closed the monitor

[Alex Bennée]

Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@linux.dev> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Executing virt-install with the following options:
>
> sudo virt-install --machine=virt --arch=aarch64 --name=test8 --disk
> path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/jammy.qcow2,format=qcow2,device=disk,bus=virtio,cache=none
> --memory=2048 --vcpu=1 --nographic --check all=off --features acpi=off
> --import --os-variant=ubuntu22.04 --virt-type kvm --boot
> kernel=Image-guest-cca-v4,initrd=rootfs.cpio,kernel_args='earlycon
> console=ttyAMA0 rdinit=/sbin/init rw root=/dev/vda acpi=off' --network
> none
>
> receives an error:
>
> Starting install...
> ERROR    internal error: QEMU unexpectedly closed the monitor (vm='test8'): 
> 2024-07-29T06:23:04.717118Z qemu-system-aarch64: could not load kernel 
> '/home/realm/Image-guest-cca-v4’
>
> I am not sure how to investigate as the kernel Image (Image-guest-cca-v4) can 
> work if it is used directly with the qemu-system-aarch64, like:
>
> sudo qemu-system-aarch64 -kernel Image-guest-cca-v4 -initrd
> rootfs.cpio -cpu host -M virt,gic-version=3,acpi=off -enable-kvm -smp
> 2 -m 2048M -nographic -append 'earlycon console=ttyAMA0
> rdinit=/sbin/init rw root=/dev/vda acpi=off' -net none

Is there any way to get virt-install to dump its QEMU command line?
There obviously seems to be something off if it works when you build the
command line by hand.

>
> Userland is Ubuntu 24.04, and the host and guest kernels are for the 
> protected VM (Realm) execution.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Itaru.

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro