I posted some screen captures in this other thread.

 

I start the VM from the VMS page, from the Debian template, "Start with Console".

This opens the VNC window. It starts with UEFI Interactive Shell

I type "Exit" and get to the BIOS. I navigate to Boot Manager, and select UEFI QEMU DVD-ROM.  (where the Debian installer is mounted)

I select Graphical Install in the Debian Installer. I select language, locatoin, and keyboard,

I see a text mode screen with red and blue progress bars "Loading Additional Components"

 

Previosly, it completed, and went to Network selection (DHCP) where the VNC window went black and non-responive.

 

This time it freezes loading partman-xfs at 38% in the text mode installer.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

 

 

 

Here is the log from VM Manager / View Libvirt Log. There seems to be one entry for every time I have run the Debian installer and it failed.  Can anyone explain what "name='Debian' uuid=... is tainted: high-privileges" means?

 

2025-04-19 22:05:04.426+0000: 220121: info : libvirt version: 10.7.0
2025-04-19 22:05:04.426+0000: 220121: info : hostname: T440
2025-04-19 22:05:04.426+0000: 220121: warning : qemuDomainObjTaintMsg:7164 : Domain id=1 name='Debian' uuid=6b84f376-fdc0-6c7a-2b13-637dc7bf562a is tainted: high-privileges
2025-04-19 22:26:41.764+0000: 220122: warning : qemuDomainObjTaintMsg:7164 : Domain id=2 name='Debian' uuid=6b84f376-fdc0-6c7a-2b13-637dc7bf562a is tainted: high-privileges
2025-04-20 22:05:28.239+0000: 220123: warning : qemuDomainObjTaintMsg:7164 : Domain id=3 name='Debian' uuid=6b84f376-fdc0-6c7a-2b13-637dc7bf562a is tainted: high-privileges
2025-04-20 22:15:52.716+0000: 220121: warning : qemuDomainObjTaintMsg:7164 : Domain id=4 name='Debian' uuid=6b84f376-fdc0-6c7a-2b13-637dc7bf562a is tainted: high-privileges
2025-04-20 22:21:58.669+0000: 220124: warning : qemuDomainObjTaintMsg:7164 : Domain id=5 name='Debian' uuid=6b84f376-fdc0-6c7a-2b13-637dc7bf562a is tainted: high-privileges
2025-04-20 22:27:31.559+0000: 220123: warning : qemuDomainObjTaintMsg:7164 : Domain id=6 name='Debian' uuid=6b84f376-fdc0-6c7a-2b13-637dc7bf562a is tainted: high-privileges
2025-04-21 22:53:22.263+0000: 220124: warning : qemuDomainObjTaintMsg:7164 : Domain id=7 name='Debian' uuid=6b84f376-fdc0-6c7a-2b13-637dc7bf562a is tainted: high-privileges
2025-04-22 16:54:45.757+0000: 2110453: info : libvirt version: 10.7.0
2025-04-22 16:54:45.757+0000: 2110453: info : hostname: T440
2025-04-22 16:54:45.757+0000: 2110453: warning : qemuDomainObjTaintMsg:7164 : Domain id=1 name='Debian' uuid=6b84f376-fdc0-6c7a-2b13-637dc7bf562a is tainted: high-privileges
2025-04-22 21:10:14.304+0000: 2110456: warning : qemuDomainObjTaintMsg:7164 : Domain id=2 name='Debian' uuid=6b84f376-fdc0-6c7a-2b13-637dc7bf562a is tainted: high-privileges
2025-04-22 21:36:06.627+0000: 2110456: warning : qemuDomainObjTaintMsg:7164 : Domain id=3 name='Debian' uuid=6b84f376-fdc0-6c7a-2b13-637dc7bf562a is tainted: high-privileges
2025-04-22 22:10:31.301+0000: 2110454: warning : qemuDomainObjTaintMsg:7164 : Domain id=4 name='Debian' uuid=6b84f376-fdc0-6c7a-2b13-637dc7bf562a is tainted: high-privileges

 

Here is the log from the VMS / Debian pop-up menu / Logs:   (t440.local/logterminal/Debian/)

 

2025-04-22 16:54:45.757+0000: starting up libvirt version: 10.7.0, qemu version: 9.1.0, kernel: 6.6.78-Unraid, hostname: T440
LC_ALL=C \
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin \
HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-1-Debian \
XDG_DATA_HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-1-Debian/.local/share \
XDG_CACHE_HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-1-Debian/.cache \
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-1-Debian/.config \
/usr/local/sbin/qemu \
-name guest=Debian,debug-threads=on \
-S \
-object '{"qom-type":"secret","id":"masterKey0","format":"raw","file":"/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-1-Debian/master-key.aes"}' \
-blockdev '{"driver":"file","filename":"/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd","node-name":"libvirt-pflash0-storage","auto-read-only":true,"discard":"unmap"}' \
-blockdev '{"node-name":"libvirt-pflash0-format","read-only":true,"driver":"raw","file":"libvirt-pflash0-storage"}' \
-blockdev '{"driver":"file","filename":"/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/6b84f376-fdc0-6c7a-2b13-637dc7bf562a_VARS-pure-efi.fd","node-name":"libvirt-pflash1-storage","read-only":false}' \
-machine pc-q35-9.1,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off,mem-merge=off,memory-backend=pc.ram,pflash0=libvirt-pflash0-format,pflash1=libvirt-pflash1-storage,hpet=off,acpi=on \
-accel kvm \
-cpu host,migratable=on,host-cache-info=on,l3-cache=off \
-m size=25165824k \
-object '{"qom-type":"memory-backend-ram","id":"pc.ram","size":25769803776}' \
-overcommit mem-lock=off \
-smp 4,sockets=1,dies=1,clusters=1,cores=2,threads=2 \
-uuid 6b84f376-fdc0-6c7a-2b13-637dc7bf562a \
-no-user-config \
-nodefaults \
-chardev socket,id=charmonitor,fd=35,server=on,wait=off \
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control \
-rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew \
-global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=delay \
-no-shutdown \
-boot strict=on \
-device '{"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":8,"chassis":1,"id":"pci.1","bus":"pcie.0","multifunction":true,"addr":"0x1"}' \
-device '{"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":9,"chassis":2,"id":"pci.2","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1.0x1"}' \
-device '{"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":10,"chassis":3,"id":"pci.3","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1.0x2"}' \
-device '{"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":11,"chassis":4,"id":"pci.4","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1.0x3"}' \
-device '{"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":12,"chassis":5,"id":"pci.5","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1.0x4"}' \
-device '{"driver":"ich9-usb-ehci1","id":"usb","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x7.0x7"}' \
-device '{"driver":"ich9-usb-uhci1","masterbus":"usb.0","firstport":0,"bus":"pcie.0","multifunction":true,"addr":"0x7"}' \
-device '{"driver":"ich9-usb-uhci2","masterbus":"usb.0","firstport":2,"bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x7.0x1"}' \
-device '{"driver":"ich9-usb-uhci3","masterbus":"usb.0","firstport":4,"bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x7.0x2"}' \
-device '{"driver":"virtio-serial-pci","id":"virtio-serial0","bus":"pci.2","addr":"0x0"}' \
-blockdev '{"driver":"file","filename":"/mnt/user/domains/Debian/vdisk1.img","node-name":"libvirt-2-storage","read-only":false,"discard":"unmap","cache":{"direct":false,"no-flush":false}}' \
-device '{"driver":"virtio-blk-pci","bus":"pci.3","addr":"0x0","drive":"libvirt-2-storage","id":"virtio-disk2","bootindex":1,"write-cache":"on","serial":"vdisk1deb"}' \
-blockdev '{"driver":"file","filename":"/mnt/user/isos/debian-12.10.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}' \
-device '{"driver":"ide-cd","bus":"ide.0","drive":"libvirt-1-storage","id":"sata0-0-0","bootindex":2}' \
-netdev '{"type":"tap","fd":"36","id":"hostnet0"}' \
-device '{"driver":"virtio-net","netdev":"hostnet0","id":"net0","mac":"52:54:00:3b:85:b6","bus":"pci.1","addr":"0x0"}' \
-chardev pty,id=charserial0 \
-device '{"driver":"isa-serial","chardev":"charserial0","id":"serial0","index":0}' \
-chardev socket,id=charchannel0,fd=34,server=on,wait=off \
-device '{"driver":"virtserialport","bus":"virtio-serial0.0","nr":1,"chardev":"charchannel0","id":"channel0","name":"org.qemu.guest_agent.0"}' \
-chardev qemu-vdagent,id=charchannel1,name=vdagent,clipboard=on,mouse=on \
-device '{"driver":"virtserialport","bus":"virtio-serial0.0","nr":2,"chardev":"charchannel1","id":"channel1","name":"com.redhat.spice.0"}' \
-device '{"driver":"usb-tablet","id":"input0","bus":"usb.0","port":"1"}' \
-audiodev '{"id":"audio1","driver":"none"}' \
-vnc 0.0.0.0:0,websocket=5700,share=ignore,password=on,audiodev=audio1 \
-k en-us \
-device '{"driver":"qxl-vga","id":"video0","max_outputs":1,"ram_size":67108864,"vram_size":67108864,"vram64_size_mb":0,"vgamem_mb":16,"bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1e"}' \
-global ICH9-LPC.noreboot=off \
-watchdog-action reset \
-device '{"driver":"virtio-balloon-pci","id":"balloon0","bus":"pci.4","addr":"0x0"}' \
-sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny \
-msg timestamp=on
2025-04-22 16:54:45.757+0000: Domain id=1 is tainted: high-privileges
char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 (label charserial0)
qxl_send_events: spice-server bug: guest stopped, ignoring

 

 

Edited April 23, 20251 yr by timg11

Finally solved this. A helpful person @CwF on the Debian forum noticed the minimum RAM in the Template was 1G. I changed the minimum RAM to 8G, and the installer completed normally. I had the maximum RAM set at 24G, incorrectly thinking that the VM would allocate what was required up to that limit.

My error was to use the "Template" for a Debian VM provided in the Unraid "New VM" list of templates. That template has the 1G memory. Being new to Unraid, I was trying to minimize making changes to settings, incorrectly believing the Template was appropriate for a Debian VM.

 

Ironically, the libvirt logs look exactly the same for a successful install compared to a install that apparently failed due to lack of RAM:

2025-04-23 21:03:43.109+0000: 2110453: warning : qemuDomainObjTaintMsg:7164 : Domain id=5 name='Debian' uuid=6b84f376-fdc0-6c7a-2b13-637dc7bf562a is tainted: high-privileges

 

Edited April 23, 20251 yr by timg11