From 31892118ed3a0a29d6e4a953f7462224170a0058 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: QaidVoid <12017109+QaidVoid@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:38:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add troubleshooting --- TROUBLESHOOTING.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 TROUBLESHOOTING.md diff --git a/TROUBLESHOOTING.md b/TROUBLESHOOTING.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f4bb71c --- /dev/null +++ b/TROUBLESHOOTING.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +## **Troubleshoot your troubles** +### Where is the log? +The logs are stored in /var/libvirt/qemu/vm_name.log, where vm_name is the name of the VM you're trying to boot. \ +By reading the few lines at the bottom of the log file, you get general idea of what might be an issue. + +### warning: host doesn't support requested feature, what is this? +This warning usually means that the feature guest is requesting is not available on host. \ +After the warning message, on same line, you'll see something like MSR(490H).vmx-entry-load-perf-global-ctrl \ +That's the feature it's missing, but I have no idea what most of them indicate. \ +If you've set Firmware for VM to BIOS, change to UEFI. \ +In the cpu section in log file, you might see something like this: \ +***-cpu Skylake,vme=on,ss=on,vmx=on,...*** \ +Make sure you've set ***host-passthrough*** CPU model which'll produce ***-cpu host,...*** instead. \ +If it doesn't, I don't have any other ideas.