What kind of Linux distribution are you using? Sound like you're using libvirt on top of QEMU ... how does your guest XML definition in libvirt look like? You might need to specify a different machine type in your XML there...
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1469978 Title: compile qemu use with KVM machine not supported Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: I have to compile qemu 2.3.0 and 2.2.0. and install follow this. ./configure --enable-kvm --target-list=x86_64-softmmu make make install It's located in /usr/local/bin I want to use qemu with KVM so I copy /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 to /usr/bin and I run VMM for start my VM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Error starting domain: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-system-x86_64: -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6: Unsupported machine type Use -machine help to list supported machines! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 96, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 117, in tmpcb callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1162, in startup self._backend.create() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 866, in create if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-system-x86_64: -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6: Unsupported machine type Use -machine help to list supported machines! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I can't use my VM except reinstall kvm, qemu-kvm. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1469978/+subscriptions