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I created a VM with SLES12SP2 to have as an openqa instance, I followed internal instructions for installation and configuration but they are identical to the public instructions.

Because I was using a VM as the instance, I needed to enable nested virtualization in the host system for the workers to exist. The hypervisor is the default workstation we have in SUSE, a Dell Precision Tower 5810 with this Processor: Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-1620 v4 (4C, 3.5GHz, 3.8GHz Turbo, 2400MHz, 10MB, 140W).

This was set up correctly:

cat /sys/module/kvm_intel/parameters/nested
Y

After cloning a passing job from openqa.suse.de I tried to run it on my instance and I got these errors:

[Mon Nov 27 10:03:57 2017] [9197:debug] Error connecting to host <localhost>: IO::Socket::INET: connect: Connection refused
DIE can't open hmp at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/backend/qemu.pm line 792.

 at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/backend/baseclass.pm line 80.
    backend::baseclass::die_handler('can\'t open hmp at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/backend/qemu.pm line ...') called at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/backend/qemu.pm line 792
    backend::qemu::start_qemu('backend::qemu=HASH(0x69b5728)') called at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/backend/qemu.pm line 103
    backend::qemu::do_start_vm('backend::qemu=HASH(0x69b5728)') called at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/backend/baseclass.pm line 257
    backend::baseclass::start_vm('backend::qemu=HASH(0x69b5728)', undef) called at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/backend/baseclass.pm line 75
    backend::baseclass::handle_command('backend::qemu=HASH(0x69b5728)', 'HASH(0x6c042e8)') called at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/backend/baseclass.pm line 436
    backend::baseclass::check_socket('backend::qemu=HASH(0x69b5728)', 'IO::Handle=GLOB(0x6851440)') called at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/backend/qemu.pm line 1000
    backend::qemu::check_socket('backend::qemu=HASH(0x69b5728)', 'IO::Handle=GLOB(0x6851440)', 0) called at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/backend/baseclass.pm line 208
    eval {...} called at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/backend/baseclass.pm line 156
    backend::baseclass::run_capture_loop('backend::qemu=HASH(0x69b5728)') called at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/backend/baseclass.pm line 129
    backend::baseclass::run('backend::qemu=HASH(0x69b5728)', 5, 8) called at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/backend/driver.pm line 85
    backend::driver::start('backend::driver=HASH(0x4d37838)') called at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/backend/driver.pm line 48
    backend::driver::new('backend::driver', 'qemu') called at /usr/bin/isotovideo line 211
    main::init_backend() called at /usr/bin/isotovideo line 280
[Mon Nov 27 10:03:58 2017] [9197:debug] waitpid for 9203 returned 9203
last frame
[Mon Nov 27 10:03:58 2017] [9197:debug] QEMU: Could not access KVM kernel module: No such file or directory
[Mon Nov 27 10:03:58 2017] [9197:debug] QEMU: failed to initialize KVM: No such file or directory
[Mon Nov 27 10:03:58 2017] [9197:debug] sending magic and exit
[Mon Nov 27 10:03:58 2017] [9190:debug] received magic close
failed to start VM at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/backend/driver.pm line 128.
[Mon Nov 27 10:03:58 2017] [9190:debug] awaiting death of commands process
[Mon Nov 27 10:03:58 2017] [error] can_read received kill signal at /usr/lib/os-autoinst/myjsonrpc.pm line 89.

I tried to load the kernel module manually in the instance:

# modprobe kvm_intel
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'kvm_intel': Operation not supported

My physical CPU on the host system is (1/8 cores):

# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 63
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz
stepping        : 2
microcode       : 0x3a
cpu MHz         : 3600.008
cache size      : 10240 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 15
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good 
nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c r
drand lahf_lm abm ida arat epb pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid cqm xsaveopt cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc
bugs            :
bogomips        : 6984.40
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

I checked "Copy host CPU Configuration" in the virt-manager and the Model was set as "Haswell-noTSX".

I know this is not an openqa specific issue, more like a kvm nested virtualization issue but I need help to fix this for openqa and if someone has already installed their instance in a VM maybe they can help me fix it. If this is not possible (VM as openqa instance) or you know of a workaround please let me know. Otherwise we need to document that the openQA instance needs to be a physical machine.