Titanium in GNS3 QEMU on Windows 7

So, I've seen a few posts around the internet where people can't get Titanium to run in QEMU in GNS3 on Windows 7.  I thought I'd take a stab at it, and didn't have much luck.

Here's what I'm using:

Titanium 6.1.1
Windows 7 64-bit
GNS3-0.8.3.1-all-in-one

• Qemu Image
• I have this pointing to my vmdk file that I have working in VMware Workstation 9.  This is running Titanium 6.1.1, even though I have tried this all with 5.1.2 and 5.2.1.  Same issue.
• RAM
• Using 1024 MiB is the only way I can get QEMU to start.
• If I use 2048 MiB, I get the error:
• Issues have been detected while starting nodes, please check details ...
• I click Show Details, which tells me - QEMU1: error from server 127.0.0.1:10525: 209-unable to start instance 'QEMU1'
• I click OK and start crying.
• Number of NICs
• I've always left this at 6, never changed it.
• NIC model
• Set this to e1000
• Qemu Options
• I've tried a couple of options with CPU, SCSI, etc.  Didn't really make any progress that seemed valuable.
• Use KVM (Linux hosts only)
• I've tried having this checked and unchecked, didn't seem to make any difference.

So, using the vmdk file, 1024 RAM, 6 e1000 NICs, no options, KVM unchecked, I get it to power up and the QEMU window shows this:

Plex86/Bochs VGABios (PCI) current-cvs 17 Dec 2008

This VGA/VBE Bios is released under the GNU LGPL

Please visit :

 . http://bochs.sourceforge.net

 . http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios

cirrus-compatible VGA is detected

QEMU BIOS - build 07/11/09

$Revision$ $Date$

Options: apmbios pcibios eltorito rombios32

ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk (2048 MBytes)

ata0  slave: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk (1024 MBtyes)

ata1 master: QEMU DVD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom

Booting from Hard Disk...

Loader Loading stage1.5.

Loader loading, please wait...

WARNING: Ancient bootloader, some functionality may be limited!

_

OK, everything looks great so far, just like it did when I had this running in VMware Workstation.  So, I right-click on the QEMU instance in GNS3 and console into it.  Putty opens up and it scrolls through a bunch of stuff that I logged and notice it continually repeats this cycle:


ATE0Q1&D2&C1S0=1
Auto booting bootflash:/titanium-d1-kickstart.6.1.1.gbin bootflash:/titanium-d1.6.1.1.gbin...
Booting kickstart image: bootflash:/titanium-d1-kickstart.6.1.1.gbin........................................................................................Image verification OK

BUG: spinlock spinlock held for long time on CPU#0, swapper/1
 lock: c0503f80, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/1, .owner_cpu: 0
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27.10 #1
 [<c02450c2>] spin_bug+0x7d/0x88
 [<c024514f>] _raw_spin_unlock+0x82/0xbe
 [<c03d906f>] __release_kernel_lock+0xd/0xf
 [<c03d715c>] schedule+0x58/0x77c
 [<c0241c66>] ? strcmp+0xa/0x22
 [<c0123791>] ? __enqueue_entity+0xe3/0xeb
 [<c03d7964>] schedule_timeout+0x1b/0xa4
 [<c0131764>] ? jiffies_to_msecs+0x8/0xd
 [<c0245183>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0xb6/0xbe
 [<c03d7034>] wait_for_common+0xbb/0x10f
 [<c012ae48>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0xd
 [<c03d7102>] wait_for_completion+0x12/0x14
 [<c013f0f9>] kthread_create+0x75/0xa0
 [<c017400a>] ? pdflush+0x0/0x1a5
 [<c0177733>] ? next_online_pgdat+0x8/0xc
 [<c0173ff9>] start_one_pdflush_thread+0x19/0x2a
 [<c017400a>] ? pdflush+0x0/0x1a5
 [<c0524b71>] pdflush_init+0xd/0x16
 [<c010118c>] do_one_initcall+0x42/0x115
 [<c0524b64>] ? pdflush_init+0x0/0x16
 [<c015dcc1>] ? register_irq_proc+0x97/0xb3
 [<c015dc38>] ? register_irq_proc+0xe/0xb3
 [<c015dd1f>] ? init_irq_proc+0x42/0x4f
 [<c050e395>] kernel_init+0xf8/0x146
 [<c050e29d>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x146
 [<c0104e57>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
 =======================
owner_pc=c03d7850 held lock for 10260 msec
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
HugeTLB registered 2 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
msgmni has been set to 1755
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci 0000:00:00.0: Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers
pci 0000:00:01.0: PIIX3: Enabling Passive Release
pci 0000:00:01.0: Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds
pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
hwtimer: Added rtc (Generic PC style RTC) at index=0
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f13:MOU] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Serial: 8250/16550 driver4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
erial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:06: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
kgdb: Registered I/O driver kgdboc.
brd: module loaded
loop: module loaded
pcnet32.c:v1.35 21.Apr.2008 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
piix 0000:00:01.1: IDE controller (0x8086:0x7010 rev 0x00)
piix 0000:00:01.1: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
pci 0000:00:01.1: setting latency timer to 64
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: QEMU HARDDISK, ATA DISK drive
hdb: QEMU HARDDISK, ATA DISK drive
hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO2
hda: MWDMA2 mode selected
hdb: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO2
hdb: MWDMA2 mode selected
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: QEMU DVD-ROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO0
hdc: MWDMA2 mode selected
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide_generic: please use "probe_mask=0x3f" module parameter for probing all legacy ISA IDE ports
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 4194304 sectors (2147 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=4161/255/63
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 > hda3 hda4
hdb: max request size: 512KiB
hdb: 2097152 sectors (1073 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=2080/255/63
hdb: cache flushes supported
 hdb: unknown partition table
hdc: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 1.00
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.07
Copyright (c) 1999-2008 LSI Corporation
Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.07
Fusion MPT FC Host driver 3.04.07
Fusion MPT SAS Host driver 3.04.07
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
virtio-pci 0000:00:09.0: can't derive routing for PCI INT A
virtio-pci 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A: no GSI - using IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 26
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
TCP cubic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 10
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 4
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 300k freed
owner_pc=c03d7850 held lock for 10690 msec
INIT: version 2.86 booting
ATA/IDE disk detected.
Enter system maintenance mode? (y/n) [n]:
Checking all filesystems..... done.
Trying to mount cdrom...
hostname: invalid option -- '-'
Try `hostname --help' for more information.
Renaming eth interfaces
  eobc_pseudo at eth0: no swap
Loading system software
Uncompressing system image: bootflash:/titanium-d1.6.1.1.gbin Wed Feb 20 04:06:12 UTC 2013
blogger: nothing to do.

..done Wed Feb 20 04:06:25 UTC 2013
Load plugins that defined in image conf: /isan/plugin_img/img.conf
Loading plugin 0: core_plugin...
num srgs 1
0: swid-core-titanium, swid-core-titanium
num srgs 1
0: swid-sup1e-ks, swid-sup1e-ks
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
Mounting other filesystems:  [  OK  ]
Starting NFS statd: [  OK  ]

2013 Feb 20 04:07:23  %$ VDC-1 %$ Feb 20 04:07:20 %KERN-0-SYSTEM_MSG: BUG: spinlock spinlock held for long time on CPU#0, swapper/1 - kernel
2013 Feb 20 04:07:23  %$ VDC-1 %$ Feb 20 04:07:20 %KERN-0-SYSTEM_MSG:  lock: c0503f80, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/1, .owner_cpu: 0 - kernel
2013 Feb 20 04:07:23  %$ VDC-1 %$ Feb 20 04:07:20 %KERN-0-SYSTEM_MSG: owner_pc=c03d7850 held lock for 10260 msec - kernel
2013 Feb 20 04:07:23  %$ VDC-1 %$ Feb 20 04:07:20 %KERN-0-SYSTEM_MSG: owner_pc=c03d7850 held lock for 10690 msec - kernel

2013 Feb 20 04:08:38  %$ VDC-1 %$ %L3VM-2-STARTUP_FAILURE:  l3vm [2089]  Startup failure: failed to create default VRF in l3vm_create_wellknown_vrf()
2013 Feb 20 04:08:38  %$ VDC-1 %$ %L3VM-2-STARTUP_FAILURE:  l3vm [2089]  Startup failure: failed to create wellknown vrfs in l3vm_ha_init()
2013 Feb 20 04:08:38  %$ VDC-1 %$ %L3VM-2-STARTUP_FAILURE:  l3vm [2089]  Startup failure: failed to initalize HA in l3vm_init()
2013 Feb 20 04:08:38  %$ VDC-1 %$ %L3VM-2-STARTUP_FAILURE:  l3vm [2089]  Startup failure: failed to start process in main()
System is coming up ... Please wait ...
2013 Feb 20 04:09:00  %$ VDC-1 %$ %U6RIB-0-SYSLOG_SL_MSG_EMERG: l3vm_open_one_sdb Backtrace: 0xb7d7a22b 0xb7d609bd 0x8060647 0x80639dd 0x808090b 0x414735c5
2013 Feb 20 04:09:08  %$ VDC-1 %$ l3vm: sdb_open(volatile:/dev/shm/l3vm_global_sdb) failed: 0x411a000f (no such sdb exists or is destroyed)
2013 Feb 20 04:09:08  %$ VDC-1 %$ %L3VM-2-STARTUP_FAILURE:  l3vm [2163]  Startup failure: failed to SDB init in l3vm_ha_init()
2013 Feb 20 04:09:08  %$ VDC-1 %$ %L3VM-2-STARTUP_FAILURE:  l3vm [2163]  Startup failure: failed to initalize HA in l3vm_init()
2013 Feb 20 04:09:08  %$ VDC-1 %$ %L3VM-2-STARTUP_FAILURE:  l3vm [2163]  Startup failure: failed to start process in main()
System is coming up ... Please wait ...
System is coming up ... Please wait ...
System is coming up ... Please wait ...
2013 Feb 20 04:09:31  %$ VDC-1 %$ l3vm: sdb_open(volatile:/dev/shm/l3vm_global_sdb) failed: 0x411a000f (no such sdb exists or is destroyed)
2013 Feb 20 04:09:31  %$ VDC-1 %$ %L3VM-2-STARTUP_FAILURE:  l3vm [2218]  Startup failure: failed to SDB init in l3vm_ha_init()
2013 Feb 20 04:09:31  %$ VDC-1 %$ %L3VM-2-STARTUP_FAILURE:  l3vm [2218]  Startup failure: failed to initalize HA in l3vm_init()
2013 Feb 20 04:09:31  %$ VDC-1 %$ %L3VM-2-STARTUP_FAILURE:  l3vm [2218]  Startup failure: failed to start process in main()
System is coming up ... Please wait ...
INIT: Switching to runlevel: 6
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal
Stopping NFS statd: [  OK  ]
Sending all processes the TERM signal...
Sending all processes the KILL signal...
Unmounting filesystems...
Restarting system.

Please let me know if anyone has gotten past this or not.  I'll keep trying a few other things.  If this doesn't work, I may start taking a collection to raise money to buy a Nexus 7009 for my home lab. :)