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[solved] Cannot start any VMs (is tainted high-privileges & host-cpu errors)

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I have been using and writing a lot of Docker images and thought that I would take a look at VMs. However, none will start:

 

LC_ALL=C PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/ QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/local/sbin/qemu -name 'Windows 7' -S -machine pc-i440fx-2.5,accel=kvm,usb=off,mem-merge=off -cpu host,hv_time,hv_relaxed,hv_vapic,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,hv_vendor_id=none -m 2048 -realtime mlock=off -smp 2,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=2 -uuid e8e3ee70-eaa9-e1cd-68e6-14c24d766113 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev 'socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-Windows 7/monitor.sock,server,nowait' -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime -no-hpet -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device ich9-usb-ehci1,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7.0x7 -device ich9-usb-uhci1,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x7 -device ich9-usb-uhci2,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7.0x1 -device ich9-usb-uhci3,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=4,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7.0x2 -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -drive 'file=/mnt/cache/.keep/vm/Windows 7/v-device qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,vgamem_mb=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -msg timestamp=on
Domain id=2 is tainted: high-privileges
Domain id=2 is tainted: host-cpu
char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 (label charserial0)

 

I have tried selecting other CPU cores etc.

 

This seems to be the problem:

Domain id=2 is tainted: high-privileges
Domain id=2 is tainted: host-cpu

 

argggg: I guess I need IOMMU capability?. No menu to set it...

 

Model: N/A

M/B: ASUSTeK Computer INC. - P8Z68-V PRO

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz

HVM: Enabled

IOMMU: Disabled

Cache: 256 kB, 1024 kB, 8192 kB

Memory: 16384 MB (max. installable capacity 32 GB)

Network: eth0: 1000Mb/s, Full Duplex, mtu 1500

Kernel: Linux 4.4.6-unRAID x86_64

OpenSSL: 1.0.2g

Uptime:

have you checked in the BIOS? CPU should be fine.

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There is no option to enable iommu in the bios that I can see.

HVM is enabled though.

 

Is IOMMU a requirement for VMs?

There is no option to enable iommu in the bios that I can see.

HVM is enabled though.

 

Is IOMMU a requirement for VMs?

 

Look for VT-d in the BIOS, i suspect it will be disabled. Just enable it (VT-d is Intel and IOMMU is AMD)

I could be wrong but you should still be able to have VM's you just won't be able to pass-through.

 

You will need to use VNC to access them.

That's all I need. I wonder what is causing the error then

That's all I need. I wonder what is causing the error then

 

The error you are seeing is not really an error. It's always in the logs.

 

You need to post more info if you want to get a solution. Diagnostic zip and xml is a minimum.

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solved - its a problem with Chrome! Firefox seems to work (adblock maybe?)

 

the real vnc wasnt working

  • 3 years later...

I understand this is an old thread, but just in case anyone else like me comes across this - it can also be caused when you first start a new VM, and it's attempting to boot off the install ISO. 
You’ll get a "press any key to boot from CD" prompt, but only for a few seconds, then the boot fails and you get a shell prompt. 

 

If you don’t get in to VNC quickly enough, it's easy to miss that "press any key" prompt. 

  • 2 weeks later...

Just in case anyone else runs into this issue, Safari will not open VNC properly either and you'll get the three horizontal scrolling dots, when in all actuality, your VM is running just fine.  As of right now, Chrome (80.0.3987.149) in Catalina 10.15.3/.4 is working.

  • 2 weeks later...

I had the same issue with Chrome and had to use Edge for the browser

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