We have qemu 2.8 (1:2.8+dfsg-1) and ipxe-qemu (1.0.0+git-20161027.b991c67-1)
With this versions, we attempt to run virt-install with pxe option and got a messages in logs like this: 2017-01-23 11:45:17.987+0000: starting up libvirt version: 2.5.0, package: 3 (Guido Günther <a...@sigxcpu.org> Fri, 23 Dec 2016 16:18:12 +0100), qemu version: 2.8.0(Debian 1:2.8+dfsg-1), hostname: big-pc.home LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name guest=git.debian.decelles.ca,debug-threads=on -S -object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-3-git.debian.decelles./master-key.aes -machine pc-i440fx-2.8,accel=kvm,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off -cpu core2duo,-vmx -m 512 -realtime mlock=off -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 03a68d52-2249-4c61-b1f1-0a5b666f6317 -display none -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-3-git.debian.decelles./monitor.sock,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard -no-hpet -no-reboot -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s3=1 -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s4=1 -boot strict=on -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -drive file=/home/libvirt/pool/git.debian.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk 0 -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=2 -netdev tap,fd=27,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=29 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:10:01:13,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2,bootindex=1 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev socket,id=charchannel0,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/domain-3-git.debian.decelles./org.qemu.guest_agent.0,server,nowait -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -msg timestamp=on char device redirected to /dev/pts/3 (label charserial0) KVM internal error. Suberror: 1 emulation failure EAX=e01cccc0 EBX=000000a0 ECX=00002e70 EDX=000a38b8 ESI=1ffa2fe0 EDI=1fed0000 EBP=ffffffff ESP=00007b92 EIP=000006a1 EFL=00000087 [--S--PC] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0 ES =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 CS =9c48 0009c480 ffffffff 00809b00 SS =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00809300 DS =9ccc 0009ccc0 ffffffff 00c09300 FS =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 GS =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200 TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00 GDT= 00000000 00000000 IDT= 00000000 000003ff CR0=00000010 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000 DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000 DR3=0000000000000000 DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400 EFER=0000000000000000 Code=00 16 66 9c 66 60 0f a8 0f a0 06 1e 16 0e fa 2e 8e 1e 86 06 <0f> ae 06 20 1d 0f 01 0e 16 1d 0f 01 06 10 1d fc 66 b9 38 00 00 00 66 ba 10 02 00 00 66 68 2017-01-23T11:45:30.186063Z qemu-system-x86_64: terminating on signal 15 from pid 483 (/usr/sbin/libvirtd) 2017-01-23 11:45:30.386+0000: shutting down, reason=destroyed So, It may be fixed with newest ipxe, not only with qemu itself. -- Best Regards, Charles Malaheenee
