Hello everyone
I’m in the process of evaluating Opennebula and wanted to use one of our Raspberry Pi 5 Bs (with 16 GB of Memory). I installed Opennebula through the minione script on debian 12 and the installation went smoothly. I modified the necessary files (based on the information on this page) and restarted opennebula.service.
I then logged into sunstone web ui and tried to create a alpine linux (aarch64) based vm. But sadly I always get the error message:
Wed Jul 9 22:36:46 2025 [Z0][VMM][D]: Message received: DEPLOY FAILURE 3 cp: cannot stat ‘/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_VARS.fd’: No such file or directoryerror: Failed to create domain from /var/lib/one//datastores/0/3/deployment.0error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2025-07-09T21:36:45.432664Z qemu-kvm-one: KVM is not supported for this guest CPU type2025-07-09T21:36:45.432710Z qemu-kvm-one: kvm_init_vcpu: kvm_arch_init_vcpu failed (0): Invalid argumentCould not create domain from /var/lib/one//datastores/0/3/deployment.0ExitCode: 255
See the below configuration for the domain configuration of the vm.
I tried to manually instatiate a vm with virt-install and the following command (with a fedora aarch64 image) and that works flawlessly:
virt-install -v --name fedora-36-aarch64 --ram 4096 --disk path=f42,cache=none --nographics --os-variant fedora37 --import --arch aarch64 --vcpus 2 --network none
I tried finding solutions or further information online, but sadly came up empty. Does anybody have an idea of what I can try to make this work?
Cheers, Marc
Domain Configuration
<domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>
<name>one-3</name>
<title>testy</title>
<uuid>71396d7b-2d1e-453b-8627-09f65ea11108</uuid>
<cputune>
<shares>100</shares>
</cputune>
<memory>524288</memory>
<os>
<type arch='aarch64' machine='virt'>hvm</type>
<loader readonly="yes" type="pflash" secure="no">/usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF_CODE.fd</loader>
<nvram>/var/lib/one//datastores/0/3/testy_VARS.fd</nvram>
</os>
<devices>
<emulator><![CDATA[/usr/bin/qemu-kvm-one]]></emulator>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<source file='/var/lib/one//datastores/0/3/disk.0.snap/0'/>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
<boot order='1'/>
<driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none' discard='unmap'/>
</disk>
<disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
<source file='/var/lib/one//datastores/0/3/disk.1'/>
<target dev='sda'/>
<readonly/>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
</disk>
<controller type='scsi' index='0' model='virtio-scsi'>
<driver queues='1'/>
</controller>
<interface type='bridge'>
<source bridge='minionebr'/>
<mac address='02:00:ac:10:64:02'/>
<target dev='one-3-0'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
</interface>
<graphics type='vnc' listen='0.0.0.0' port='5903'/>
</devices>
<devices>
<controller index='0' type='pci' model='pcie-root'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-to-pci-bridge'/>
</devices>
<features>
<acpi/>
</features>
<devices>
<channel type='unix'>
<source mode='bind'/><target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/>
</channel>
</devices>
<devices><input type='keyboard' bus='virtio'/></devices>
<metadata>
<one:vm xmlns:one="http://opennebula.org/xmlns/libvirt/1.0">
<one:system_datastore><![CDATA[/var/lib/one//datastores/0/3]]></one:system_datastore>
<one:name><![CDATA[testy]]></one:name>
<one:uname><![CDATA[oneadmin]]></one:uname>
<one:uid>0</one:uid>
<one:gname><![CDATA[oneadmin]]></one:gname>
<one:gid>0</one:gid>
<one:opennebula_version>7.0.0</one:opennebula_version>
<one:stime>1752096998</one:stime>
<one:deployment_time>1752097004</one:deployment_time>
</one:vm>
</metadata>
</domain>
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