From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gleb Natapov Subject: Re: Freezing Windows 2008 x64bit guest Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:37:28 +0300 Message-ID: <20100721083728.GI27238@redhat.com> References: <20100715131944.GA24978@mp3.niederrhein.de> <20100715134441.GQ4689@redhat.com> <4C43FBEE.6000409@gmail.com> <20100719074207.GA4689@redhat.com> <4C4692DB.1000703@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Adomeit , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" To: Harri Olin Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:6344 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933736Ab0GUIhi (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:37:38 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C4692DB.1000703@gmail.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 09:25:31AM +0300, Harri Olin wrote: > Gleb Natapov kirjoitti: > >On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:17:02AM +0300, Harri Olin wrote: > >>Gleb Natapov kirjoitti: > >>>On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 03:19:44PM +0200, Christoph Adomeit wrote: > >>>>But one Windows 2008 64 Bit Server Standard is freezing regularly. > >>>>This happens sometimes 3 times a day, sometimes it takes 2 days > >>>>until freeze. The Windows Machine is a clean fresh install. > >>I think I have seen same problem occur on my Windows 2008 SBS SP2 > >>64bit system, but a bit less often, only like once a week. > >>Now I haven't seen crashes but only freezes with qemu on 100% and > >>virtual system unresponsive. > >> > >>qemu command line: > >> /usr/local/qemu-kvm-0.11.1/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -drive > >>file=/dev/rigelvg/w2k8system,cache=none,boot=on -drive > >>file=/dev/rigelvg/w2k8data,cache=none -m 6144 -vnc :1 -net > >>nic,macaddr=C0:FF:12:FB:AA:01,model=e1000 -net tap -smp 4 -localtime > >> > >> > >Try with different model then e1000 please. Default driver that comes > >with Windows known to have problems. > > Didn't help, changed to default realtek emulation, but system > freezed again. Command line: > /usr/local/qemu-kvm-0.11.1/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -drive > file=/dev/rigelvg/w2k8system,cache=none,boot=on -drive > file=/dev/rigelvg/w2k8data,cache=none -m 6144 -vnc :1 -net > nic,macaddr=C0:FF:12:FB:AA:01 -net tap -smp 4 -localtime > > This time the virtual system was not totally unresponsive somehow, > system pinged just fine and I think DNS server worked too. However > on console mouse moved but didn't react to clicking, ctrl-alt-del, > etc. > Does sendkey from monitor works? qemu-kvm-0.11.1 is very old and this is not total freeze which even harder to debug. I don't see anything extraordinary in your logs. 4643 interrupt per second for 4 cpus is normal if windows runs multimedia or other app that need hi-res timers. Does your host swapping? Is there any chance that you can try upstream qemu-kvm? -- Gleb.