OpenVZ fine, KVM not working

[rgfincher]

Dear Forum,

I have a datacentre-based Proxmox 1.7 server which has been running OpenVZ VMs with no problems. I have recently tried the KVM part of Proxmox but without success. What happens is, the "kvm" process on the hostnode goes up to 100% CPU usage immediately and stays there, and the VNC console opens, but shows nothing but a black screen. I have to kill the kvm process from the CMD line to get it to stop.

I've tried using both qcow2 and raw disk images, also a working qcow2 image from another working KVM machine (not proxmox), and have tried booting from HD and CD

My Kernel is 2.6.18-4-pve #1 SMP Wed Nov 24 05:32:29 CET 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

My CPU is model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz

It has the Intel Virtualisation support on chip.

 

[tom]

post the output of 'pveversion -v'

 

[rgfincher]

proxmox2:~# pveversion -v
pve-manager: 1.7-10 (pve-manager/1.7/5323)
running kernel: 2.6.18-4-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.7-28
pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve: 2.6.32-28
pve-kernel-2.6.18-4-pve: 2.6.18-10
qemu-server: 1.1-25
pve-firmware: 1.0-9
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-16
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.24-1pve4
vzdump: 1.2-9
vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.13.0-2
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-4

 

[tom]

you got an unsupported mix, therefore it cannot work.

run:
aptitude install proxmox-ve-2.6.18

this virtual package will install all needed packages for the 2.6.18er branch

 

[rgfincher]

Thank you, this advice fixed my problem.