Check Point Gaia VM fails with QEMU 9

[paidhima]

After updating Proxmox VE, I am no longer able to successfully bring up Check Point Gaia virtual firewall appliances. These are enterprise firewall appliances running a hardened Red Hat kernel 3.10. Prior to QEMU 9, there were no issues. After upgrading, I can deploy the appliance successfully and the first boot generally works just fine. As soon as I reboot the appliance, it enters a crash and reboot loop that I am unable to interrupt. Basic hardware config:

- SeaBIOS
- Default LSI disk controller
- i440fx machine (Latest, also tried 8.2, 8.1, 8.0)

After downgrading pve-qemu-kvm from 9.0.0-6 to 8.1.5-6 with no other changes to the VM configuration, the issues vanished, and I was able to work as usual.

 

[sw-omit]

Since it's an issues in the qemu 9 branch, you might (also) want to post about it in the main topic about it:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/qemu-9-0-available-on-pve-no-subscription-as-of-now.149772/

 

[paidhima]

Since it's an issues in the qemu 9 branch, you might (also) want to post about it in the main topic about it:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/qemu-9-0-available-on-pve-no-subscription-as-of-now.149772/

Thanks, I'll do that.