Vqfx202r110reqemuqcow2 Exclusive

Symptom: The VM restarts every 30 seconds. Solution: The vQFX kernel panics if it detects less than 4096 MB RAM. Ensure your Libvirt XML has <memory unit='MB'>4096</memory>.

Because this is v11.0R1:

vQFX is not a standard Linux VM; it requires specific QEMU arguments. Standard Ubuntu or CentOS templates will fail to boot. Create an XML file (vqfx-exclusive.xml): vqfx202r110reqemuqcow2 exclusive

<domain type='kvm'>
  <name>vqfx-exclusive</name>
  <memory unit='GiB'>4</memory>
  <vcpu>2</vcpu>
  <os>
    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-6.2'>hvm</type>
    <boot dev='hd'/>
  </os>
  <features>
    <acpi/>
    <apic/>
  </features>
  <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'/>
  <devices>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none' io='native'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/vqfx202r1-10.qcow2'/>
      <target dev='sda' bus='sata'/>
    </disk>
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <mac address='52:54:00:aa:bb:01'/>
      <source bridge='br0'/>
      <model type='e1000'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>
    <serial type='pty'>
      <target port='0'/>
    </serial>
    <console type='pty'>
      <target type='serial' port='0'/>
    </console>
  </devices>
</domain>

Critical tweaks for the exclusive image: Symptom: The VM restarts every 30 seconds