[Users] kvm guest (via libvirt) cannot start under openvz 6 (2.6.32) kernel

CoolCold coolthecold at gmail.com
Tue Jul 24 11:29:37 MSK 2018


Hello!
I don't see how switching to Devuan will help me to solve the issue.
On another side, i have no problem running stock Debian since Sarge
with openvz,  for recent release (8.x) just need to change into
sysvinit.
I don't want to start systemd-related holy war here.

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 7:30 PM, Narcis Garcia <informatica at actiu.net> wrote:
> Did you really succeed at running OpenVZ 6 with a Systemd OS?
>
> Devuan is the most mature Debian derivative without Systemd.
>
>
> El 23/07/18 a les 13:57, CoolCold ha escrit:
>> Hello!
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 3:47 PM, Narcis Garcia <informatica at actiu.net> wrote:
>>> I recommend you to use Devuan Jessie instead, at host.
>>
>> I don't know much about Devuan except it's a strange attempt to have
>> distro without systemd, but why do you think it will be helpful here?
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> El 22/07/18 a les 15:35, CoolCold ha escrit:
>>>> Hello!
>>>> I'm experiencing strange issue - cannot start KVM guest on machine
>>>> under 2.6.32 openvz kernel. Booting into kernel 4.9 on the same
>>>> system, works perfectly okay. Error message:
>>>>
>>>> root at nekotaz:~# virsh start debian-8-jessie-amd64-01
>>>> error: Failed to start domain debian-8-jessie-amd64-01
>>>> error: internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor:
>>>> 2018-07-22T13:32:03.402797Z qemu-system-x86_64: cannot set up guest
>>>> memory 'pc.ram': Cannot allocate memory
>>>>
>>>> VM definition for memory:
>>>> root at nekotaz:~# virsh dumpxml debian-8-jessie-amd64-01|fgrep -i memo
>>>>   <memory unit='KiB'>2194304</memory>
>>>>   <currentMemory unit='KiB'>2194304</currentMemory>
>>>>
>>>> root at nekotaz:~# uname -r
>>>> 2.6.32-openvz-042stab131.1-amd64
>>>> root at nekotaz:~# lsb_release -a
>>>> No LSB modules are available.
>>>> Distributor ID: Debian
>>>> Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 8.11 (jessie)
>>>> Release:        8.11
>>>> Codename:       jessie
>>>>
>>>> beancounters for host node shows 0 overruns (fail counter). Something
>>>> else is limiting, struggle to find what is it. Advises are appreciated
>>>> .
>>>>
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