Re: winXP "Standard PC" HAL and qemu-kvm >= 0.15

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

On 06.12.2011 20:38, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-12-06 17:29, Michael Tokarev wrote:
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>> It appears there are two issues here, one is fixed by
>> 09de0f469c3c2a277c7874f6c60992c8b94719a9 and is 32bit-only, and
>> another bisect leads to this commit:

Or 3... :)

>> commit 59539c913383fdd3350681301b44f02fa7ee2757
>> Author: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>> Date:   Mon Jun 27 12:22:28 2011 +0200
>>
>>     qemu-kvm: Fix in-kernel PIC reset

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>> Anything wrong with this patch?
> 
> I tend to say "no". It may just reveals some issue elsewhere.
> 
> To cross-check: Does this series [1] expose the same issue with vanilla
> QEMU when enabling that in-kernel irqchip version?

I cross-checked it the other way, which really should have been done
at the very beginning instead of wasting so much time of so many
people at once.  I just tried qemu-kvm-1.0, which I wasn't due to
an unrelated issue (1.0 does not work for me in my funky 32/64bit
environment).  Also, since the bug has been reported especially
against 0.15 version (triggering by upgrading from 0.14 to 0.15),
I didn't insist on trying 1.0, which was my biggest mistake.

And in qemu-kvm-1.0, the problem guest Just Works.  So i t must be
something else which were fixed between 0.15 and 1.0.

Upstream qemu 1.0 does not have this issue too.

> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/82871

I'll try to verify this series in a moment, but hopefully it will work
fine too :)

Thanks!

/mjt