Re: KVM and WinPE failure

[Dor Laor <dor.laor@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 14:17 -0500, jieryn@gmail.com wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm running vanilla-sources-2.6.24.3 with KVM-63 on a Thinkpad T61p
> running Gentoo Linux. I'm having some trouble with a corporate rollout
> of WinXP into a KVM image. My company uses WinPE in order to do the
> rollout, after firing up KVM (via command: kvm -hda $HOME/winxp.img
> -boot c -std-vga -m 786 -net nic,model=xxx where xxx was tried for
> every card listed with the model=? except virtio; also tried -net
> none) I see the following sequence of screenshots:
> 

How did you got the winxp.img? Is it by installing cd over kvm or
v2v /p2v?

>   http://flickr.com/photos/jieryn/2315169692/
>   http://flickr.com/photos/jieryn/2315169632/
>   http://flickr.com/photos/jieryn/2315159008/
> 
> At which point the system doesn't have any activity for 10+ minutes,
> and then I give up and kill the process. Has anyone gotten past this
> kind of issue? Or suggestions for what I can try? I've also tried with
> and without -no-kvm-irqchip parameter.

Can you try -no-kvm just to see if qemu succeeds?
Besides that, what's the output of kvm_stat once it stuck.

Another thing to check it the qemu bios. run the cmdline with -L
qemu/pc-bios, the is just a precaution to check your using the kvm-63
bios.

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -jesse
> 
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