Upgraded to 1.5 and KVM machines won't start anymore

rubylaser

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Title pretty much says it all. I upgraded from 1.4 to 1.5, and OpenVZ machines work well but KVM machines fail to startup, even if I try to setup a new virtual machine. I've tried 64 bit ubuntu, 64 bit pbxinaflash, and 64 bit cacti-ez, all fail to startup. I'm trying to use them with scsi disks, and an e1000 nic, as well as virtio versions of both as well.

Here's the result of pveversion -v
Code:
proxmox1:~# pveversion -v
pve-manager: 1.5-8 (pve-manager/1.5/4674)
running kernel: 2.6.18-2-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.18: 1.5-5
pve-kernel-2.6.18-2-pve: 2.6.18-5
qemu-server: 1.1-11
pve-firmware: 1.0-3
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-10
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.23-1pve8
vzdump: 1.2-5
vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm-2.6.18: 0.9.1-5

I see errors like this in the syslog when it fails to start
Code:
Mar 23 08:10:59 proxmox1 qm[20641]: VM 102 start failed: command '/usr/bin/kvm -monitor unix:/var/run/qemu-server/102.mon,server,nowait -vnc unix:/var/run/qemu-server/102.vnc,password -pidfile /var/run/qemu-server/102.pid -daemonize -usbdevice tablet -name ub -smp 1 -vga cirrus -tdf -k en-us -drive file=/var/lib/vz/template/iso/ubuntu-9.10-server-amd64.iso,if=ide,index=2,media=cdrom -drive file=/var/lib/vz/images/102/vm-102-disk-1.raw,if=scsi,index=0,boot=on -m 512 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=vmtab102i0,script=/var/lib/qemu-server/bridge-vlan -net nic,vlan=0,model=e1000,macaddr=5A:E4:C3:EB:0A:92 -id 102 -cpuunits 1000' failed with exit code 1
Mar 23 08:10:59 proxmox1 pvedaemon[20640]: VM 102 start failed - Transport endpoint is not connected

I appreciate any help.
 
kernel 2.6.18 does not support kvm with virtual scsi disks. I suggest you change the disk to use ide instead - or use another kernel.
 
I'm always shocked at how quickly I get replies on this forum! Does the 2.6.24 kernel support scsi disks? I just looked at the kernel support wiki page and don't see any mention of it.

Thanks again