I have a problem with simultaneously running KVM instances whose nature I can really only describe as interference. When I run one virtual machine alone I have no difficulty interacting with it, either through the sdl console presented or via ssh. However, once I run two virtual machines I am unable to:
- login at the sdl console; the correct username/password being declared invalid on the first attempt and further attmepts echoing text I have not typed, such as "r^]o^]o^]t^]"
- finalize the ssh connection into an affected instance
My client machines are Debian Squeeze and my host machine is Arch Linux 2.6.39-ARCH with qemu-kvm 0.14.1. Here's how I'm running the two interfering virtual machines:
#!/bin/sh
for f in puppet loadbalance # app0 db_master0 db_slave0 jenkins
do
qemu-kvm -drive file=$f.qcow2,if=virtio -boot c -netdev type=vde,id=tiny \
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=tiny -name $f &
done
If I run the machines with the -nographic
flag I am able to complete an ssh login, but eventually (within 5 minutes) all but one ssh console experiences very high latency. Once "focused" that virtual machine responds immediately, while the others become high-latency. Pings around the virtual network fail, between the "focused" machine and all others and from my host. What's going on here?