Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows 7 shutdown causes BSOD

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:48:15AM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:14 AM, hkran <hkran@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > On 11/15/2011 09:17 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi<stefanha@gmail.com>
> >>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi<stefanha@gmail.com>
> >>>  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Windows 7 32-bit guest blue screens when I shut it down properly with
> >>>> Start | Shut Down.  The blue screen is only displayed for a split
> >>>> second before the guest reboots so I am not able to easily tell what
> >>>> it says.  My guess is that Windows is triple-faulting or soft
> >>>> rebooting - note that I told Windows to shut down, not reboot.
> >>>>
> >>>> This issue happens on qemu.git/master (and Debian kvm 0.14.1+dfsg-3).
> >>>> Here is the QEMU command-line:
> >>>>
> >>>> x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -L pc-bios -cpu qemu32 -enable-kvm
> >>>> -m 1024 -rtc base=localtime -drive
> >>>> file=win7.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw -device
> >>>> ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1
> >>>>
> >>>> Questions:
> >>>>
> >>>> Is anyone else experiencing this?
> >>>>
> >>>> Is anyone fixing this?
> >>>>
> >>>> If not I will play with it.  Disabling ACPI might reveal the source of
> >>>> the problem.  If that turns up nothing I will try to get the BSOD or
> >>>> WinDbg output.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks to Andreas Faerber and Michael Tokarev I found out the
> >>> automatic reboot can be disabled in Windows.  Here is the BSOD
> >>> information:
> >>>
> >>> IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
> >>> STOP: 0x0000000A (0x00000000,0x000000FF,0x00000001,0x828B7220)
> >>
> >> This decodes to:
> >> "Windows or a kernel-mode driver accessed paged memory at
> >> DISPATCH_LEVEL or above."
> >>
> >> Memory referenced: 0x00000000
> >> IRQL: 0xff
> >> Read/write: Write (1)
> >> Address which referenced memory: 0x828B7220
> >>
> >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff560129%28v=VS.85%29.aspx
> >>
> >> Looks like a NULL pointer reference or maybe a deliberate "we should
> >> never get here" failure.
> >>
> >> Stefan
> >>
> > I can reproduce this bug in my environment and found out that it has
> > something with the type of "CPU".
> > I tried the command line args as the same as Stefan's and definitely casue
> > the BSOD.
> > If i change the "-cpu qemu32" to "-cpu qemu64" or "-cpu core2duo" or
> > nothing. it will shutdown as expected, that means something?
> 
> Thanks for sharing.  The guest is definitely sees a differed CPUID and
> can therefore take different code paths.  I'm not sure what
> specifically could have changed.
> 
Try adding/removing individual cpuid bits.

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			Gleb.