Re: KVM-17 & WinXP network setup hangs

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Alessandro Sardo wrote:
> Hello KVM devs,
>
> I've just downloaded and checked out KVM-17. I tried 
> installing a Windows XP SP2 guest, using the following 
> script (notice how I did NOT use the '-no-acpi' flag):
>
> qemu -hda /var/vm/img/WinXP.img -cdrom 
> /var/vm/iso/WinXP.iso -boot d -m 512
>
> The first phase of installation went straight without any 
> problem - and it was quite faster than previous releases! 
> Then, when the guest had to reboot, KVM crashed with the 
> following output:
>
>
>   

That's a known issue, we don't handle reboot on Intel.

> Not a big problem though, I just manually restarted it and 
> kept going on with the second phase of the installation.
>
> This is where I got the big problem: after installing the 
> devices and asking for the cd-key (among other things), 
> the guest totally *stalled* while configuring the network. 
> It just says "Installing the network...", but the progress 
> bar is frozen - and there's no output on the shell. I've 
> also tried with the '-net nic,model=rtl8139' flag, but the 
> result was the same. I'm unable to complete the 
> installation.
>
> Is there a work-around for this?

It may be related to unsynced timestamp counters.  Can you try prefixing 
your command with 'taskset 1'?  Like so:

   taskset 1 qemu -hda ...


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