vQFX PFE kernel panic

[nigeldunning]

Hi,

I've had a lot of problems getting the vQFX PFE image to run, I'm getting the same issue on versions 15,17 and 18 and across the board on bare metal and virtualization using old hardware, and brand spanking new hardware.
So I figure there must be something I am missing..

Right now I have eve running bare metal on a dual socket server with X5650 CPUs and 256GB of RAM, tried various vCPU and RAM combinations, still no dice.

The RE image boots fine, but the PFE never boots.

Really at my wits end after spending hours on this and getting nowhere hoping there is a gotcha that I missed to make this work, everything else I've tried works (vSRX, vyos, linux etc)

Included a screenshot of what I see over VNC during the PFE boot when it stops.

[Uldis (UD)]

edit vQFX PFE node qemu line and remove at the end -cpu host which is there
right cick on node and edit qemu line..
Qemu custom options:

-machine type=pc,accel=kvm -vga std -usbdevice tablet -boot order=cd

see at the end must not be -cpu host, remove it, save node
wipe node and start.
In next release this will be fixed by default.

Uldis

[nigeldunning]

That fixed it, thank you so much!