Minishift start errors out: Unsupported machine type

[aditya-konarde]

Logs:

[akonarde@katana minishift]$ ./minishift.sh start
error: Failed to start domain test1-master-0
error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2019-01-11T08:49:14.135349Z qemu-system-x86_64: -machine accel=kvm: unsupported machine type
Use -machine help to list supported machines

error: Failed to start domain test1-worker-0-vqgct
error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2019-01-11T08:49:14.496042Z qemu-system-x86_64: -machine pc-i440fx-2.11,accel=kvm,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off: unsupported machine type
Use -machine help to list supported machines

Let me know if any other debugging data is needed.

[gbraad]

likely you do not have Virtualization Extensions enabled. Can you check your BIOS and see if you can run kvm? You should be able to see a /dev/kvm if the module was able to load.

[gbraad]

@praveenkumar ^^

It might also be related to pc-i440fx-2.11 as machine type. Can you show the output from qemu-kvm -machine help here?

[aditya-konarde]

I am quite sure I have virtualization extensions enabled, will check on next reboot and report back here.

The output for the command you mentioned above, in case it helps

[akonarde@katana ~]$ qemu-kvm -machine help | grep i440fx
pc-i440fx-2.9        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.8        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.7        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.6        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.5        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.4        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.3        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.2        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc                   Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of pc-i440fx-2.10)
pc-i440fx-2.10       Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default)
pc-i440fx-2.1        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.0        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.7        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.6        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.5        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.4        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)

Let me know if you want the full output

[gbraad]

@praveenkumar we might have to change the machine type to just pc ?

pc Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of pc-i440fx-2.10)
pc-i440fx-2.10 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default)

@aditya-konarde
What version are you running? I mean host system and qemu ?

[aditya-konarde]

Fedora release 27 (Twenty Seven)
(Woah I need to update)

qemu version: I tried, and found that I didn't have qemu installed, this should be added to the list of dependencies that the script installs

[gbraad]

you can update the script, and find the line as mentioned in #13
Or use virsh edit to modify the VM setup, but clearly your system does not have the 2.11 definition for a 'standard PC'.

[gbraad]

@aditya-konarde I expect you can also do rpm -qa qemu-kvm (which likely returns 2.10)

[aditya-konarde]

qemu-kvm-2.10.2-1.fc27.x86_64

[gbraad]

We have tested on current Fedora systems. Fedora 27 is EOL since last year November: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life

Please update and/or as a short term solution, edit the machine type.

[aditya-konarde]

Yes, I have another machine that has a newer version of Fedora, will try on that one. Can close this issue as obsolete/unsupported I think. Thanks!

[gbraad]

We can close this issue, but I will see if we can consider changing the default machine type. it would not matter so much in use I guess.