Re: Bug: Windows 2003 fails to install on xen-unstable tip

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 16/04/13 15:34, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 16.04.13 at 16:22, George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>> The other day I just happened to try to install Windows 2003 on
>> xen-unstable tip.  After booting the CD and copying the files, the
>> whole thing stops at "Setup is starting Windows".
>>
>> The VM is in the "blocked" state; which means it has called HLT and is
>> waiting for interrupts; but no interrupts are delivered, so everything
>> just stops.
>>
>> Windows XP, strangely enough, installs just fine.
>>
>> I have duplicated this with both qemu-upstream and qemu-traditional;
>> and also on both AMD and Intel.
>>
>> I was wondering:
>> 1. if any of you had an idea what changeset might be involved
> Any of the RTC emulation changes since 4.2 would be possible
> candidates, with mine much more likely than Tim's (since his mainly
> fix issues mine introduced).

If you've got a git hash tag for your first change, I can do a quick 
test to see if that's it.

  -George