Created attachment 583762 [details, diff] Upstream backport There is a major issue with pc-q35-4.0 chipset which causes a Windows guest to go haywire and hence makes libvirt completely unusable with the current Gentoo and qemu. For more details, see the bugs reports below: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1826422 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1704375 After applying the upstream fix (see attached patch), the newly created guests seem to work fine. Upstream fix: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-06/msg00589.html
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f76e446190008f27fbad7ad055ea57c4e124a232 commit f76e446190008f27fbad7ad055ea57c4e124a232 Author: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-07-28 18:11:01 +0000 Commit: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-07-28 18:21:26 +0000 app-emulation/qemu: maintenacne patches, revbump * patch for linux-headers-5.2 * apply upstream patch for pc-q35 regression with windows guests Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/690418 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/690280 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.69, Repoman-2.3.16 Signed-off-by: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> .../qemu/files/qemu-4.0.0-linux-headers-5.2.patch | 334 +++++++++ .../qemu/files/qemu-4.0.0-pc-q35-4.0.patch | 135 ++++ app-emulation/qemu/qemu-4.0.0-r4.ebuild | 813 +++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 1282 insertions(+)