Package: qemu-system-x86 Version: 1:6.2+dfsg-1 Severity: important Justification: qemu always crashes at startup in one (fairly common) use case Forwarded: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/786
When called with the necessary parameters to loop through the Windows license key that is embedded in my laptop (through libvirt), qemu fails with an assertion: internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor: qxl_send_events: spice-server bug: guest stopped, ignoring ** ERROR:../../hw/acpi/aml-build.c:61:build_append_padded_str: assertion failed: (len <= maxlen) Bail out! ERROR:../../hw/acpi/aml-build.c:61:build_append_padded_str: assertion failed: (len <= maxlen) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 65, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 101, in tmpcb callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/libvirtobject.py", line 57, in newfn ret = fn(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/domain.py", line 1329, in startup self._backend.create() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 1353, in create raise libvirtError('virDomainCreate() failed') libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor: qxl_send_events: spice-server bug: guest stopped, ignoring ** ERROR:../../hw/acpi/aml-build.c:61:build_append_padded_str: assertion failed: (len <= maxlen) Bail out! ERROR:../../hw/acpi/aml-build.c:61:build_append_padded_str: assertion failed: (len <= maxlen) Resulting in a failure to start the Windows VM. This is tracked upstream at https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/786, and a patch is already available; please consider including it in the Debian package. -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, riscv64, armhf Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages qemu-system-x86 depends on: ii ipxe-qemu 1.0.0+git-20190125.36a4c85-5.1 ii libaio1 0.3.112-13 ii libc6 2.33-2 ii libcapstone4 4.0.2-5 ii libfdt1 1.6.1-1 ii libfuse3-3 3.10.5-1 ii libgcc-s1 11.2.0-13 ii libglib2.0-0 2.70.2-1 ii libgnutls30 3.7.2-5 ii libibverbs1 38.0-1 ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:2.1.2-1 ii libnettle8 3.7.3-1 ii libnuma1 2.0.14-3 ii libpixman-1-0 0.40.0-1 ii libpmem1 1.11.1-3 ii libpng16-16 1.6.37-3 ii librdmacm1 38.0-1 ii libsasl2-2 2.1.27+dfsg2-3 ii libseccomp2 2.5.3-2 ii libslirp0 4.6.1-1 ii libudev1 250.2-3 ii liburing2 2.1-2 ii libvdeplug2 4.0.1-3 ii libxendevicemodel1 4.14.3+32-g9de3671772-1 ii libxenevtchn1 4.14.3+32-g9de3671772-1 ii libxenforeignmemory1 4.14.3+32-g9de3671772-1 ii libxengnttab1 4.14.3+32-g9de3671772-1 ii libxenmisc4.14 4.14.3+32-g9de3671772-1 ii libxenstore3.0 4.14.3+32-g9de3671772-1 ii libxentoolcore1 4.14.3+32-g9de3671772-1 ii libzstd1 1.4.8+dfsg-3 ii qemu-system-common 1:6.2+dfsg-1 ii qemu-system-data 1:6.2+dfsg-1 ii seabios 1.15.0-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2 Versions of packages qemu-system-x86 recommends: ii ovmf 2021.11-1 ii qemu-block-extra 1:6.2+dfsg-1 ii qemu-system-gui 1:6.2+dfsg-1 ii qemu-utils 1:6.2+dfsg-1 Versions of packages qemu-system-x86 suggests: pn samba <none> pn vde2 <none> -- no debconf information