From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: Bug: Windows 2003 fails to install on xen-unstable tip Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:35:20 +0100 Message-ID: <516D61A8.1080102@eu.citrix.com> References: <516D7DA202000078000CDA60@nat28.tlf.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <516D7DA202000078000CDA60@nat28.tlf.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jan Beulich Cc: "Tim (Xen.org)" , Eddie Dong , Suravee Suthikulpanit , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 16/04/13 15:34, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 16.04.13 at 16:22, George Dunlap 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