Re: 2.6.16 Guest Hangs on Boot

Alec Joseph Rivera
2010-09-15T18:27:00Z

On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 20:15 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 15.09.2010, at 20:07, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 19:51 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >> On 15.09.2010, at 19:48, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 19:28 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >>>> On 15.09.2010, at 18:53, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi all:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm Alec Joseph Rivera, from the Philippines and new on this list.
> >>>>> Anyway, I'm trying to run Lotus Foundations on kvm and it just hangs on
> >>>>> bootup. It stops right after:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor
> >>>>> mode... Ok.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> There's no more output after that. My invocation line is:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> $ qemu-kvm -cpu host -m 1G -cdrom lfs.iso
> >>>>
> >>>> Your host is probably too new for this old guest. -cpu host directly passes through this host cpu's identifiers on which the guest might choke. Please try again without -cpu.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Tried without -cpu, still hangs after the WP bit checking...
> >>>
> >>> $ qemu-kvm -m 1G -cdrom lfs.iso
> >>>
> >>> I was scanning the changelogs and read something about a
> >>> -no-kernel-irqchip. The man page doesn't say anything about it but will
> >>> try this one too..
> >>
> >> Please try:
> >>
> >> $ qemu-kvm -m 1G -cdrom lfs.iso -serial stdio
> >>
> >> Then when it shows the bootloader, add "console=ttyS0" to the kernel command line. That should give all the debugging output necessary.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Already done this one too (I've read it from your conversations with a
> > Peter guy if I'm not mistaken).
> >
> > It just stops with no panic messages right after the mentioned checking
> > part, which made me dig after timers (bogomips calibration should be
> > next I believe). But I've gotten nowhere so far...
> >
> > Also, there's no -no-kernel-irqchip parameter, must have been a typo for
> > -no-kvm-irqchip.
> >
> > -- begin kernel messages
> >> Linux version 2.6.16.54-0.2.5-bigsmp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Mon Jan 21 08:29:51 EST 2008
> >> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> >> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
> >> BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> >> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> >> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fffd000 (usable)
> >> BIOS-e820: 000000003fffd000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
> >> BIOS-e820: 00000000fffbc000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> >> 127MB HIGHMEM available.
> >> 895MB LOWMEM available.
> >> found SMP MP-table at 000f8990
> >> DMI 2.4 present.
> >> Using APIC driver default
> >> ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xb008
> >> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
> >> Processor #0 15:11 APIC version 20
> >> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
> >> Processor #1 15:11 APIC version 20
> >> Overriding APIC driver with bigsmp
> >> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
> >> IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
> >> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
> >> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 5 global_irq 5 high level)
> >> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
> >> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 10 global_irq 10 high level)
> >> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 11 global_irq 11 high level)
> >> Enabling APIC mode: Physflat. Using 1 I/O APICs
> >> ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed00000
> >> Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
> >> Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bffbc000)
> >> Built 1 zonelists
> >> Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=32768 initrd=initrd root=/dev/ram BOOT_IMAGE=k12_1009 console=ttyS0
> >> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> >> Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
> >> Initializing CPU#0
> >> PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
> >> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> >> Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> >> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> >> Memory: 1022272k/1048564k available (1671k kernel code, 25488k reserved, 890k data, 200k init, 131064k highmem)
> >> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
>
> Interesting. Mind to check if you find a the vmlinux binary for that kernel on the cd? Maybe it's hidden inside an rpm. Then you can use:
>
> $ qemu-kvm -s -cdrom ...
> $ gdb <vmlinux> -ex 'target remote localhost:1234'
>
> (gdb) bt
>
> That should give us a clue on what's going wrong.
>

Sure will do this. I'll update the list later this morning.

> Also, does the host's dmesg say anything?
>

Nothing on the host's dmesg too. I've checked
{kernel,messages,syslog,everything}.log just to be safe but they're on
the clear also...

Meanwhile gotta sleep. Thanks for the help so far.

> Alex
>

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