From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Matteo Ghezzi <tenyosama@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 64bit Windows guests on Intel Xeon E5520
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:53:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100211065351.GH2995@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c9db2861002101551h741bb3dft3f0ac83984f79ad9@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:51:33AM +0100, Matteo Ghezzi wrote:
> Hi,
> i got a new Xeon E5520 (4 cores, 8 threads), and I'm testing some
> Windows guests.
> My configuration is as follows:
> - Arch Linux
> - Kernel 2.6.32.7
> - Qemu-Kvm 0.12.2
>
> 1st test: identify the correct line for smp in my case, I tried with:
> -smp 8,cores=4,threads=8 in this way only Windows 2003 Server works
> fine (showing 8 cpus), blue screen for Windows Server 2008 and Windows
> 7 (both 32bit and 64 bit versions)
>
If BSOD says that your BIOS is not ACPI compliant or something similar
them this is know BIOS problem. Should be fixed shortly.
> 2nd test: i lowered smp to 4 and installed both windows 7 and windows
> server 2008.
> Installation goes fine, but at first boot I get:
> kvm: unhandled exit 80000021
> kvm_run returned -22
> This only with 64bit guests, 32bit guests boot fine
> I've tried to delete the smp call from the commandline, but with 1 cpu
> I got the same problem on 64bit guests
>
> I have another E5520 coming for my dual motherboard... what smp line
> do you suggest for a system with 2 cpu, 8 physical cores and 16
> threads?
>
> Thanks for your attention.
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Gleb.
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2010-02-10 23:51 64bit Windows guests on Intel Xeon E5520 Matteo Ghezzi
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