Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

Avi Kivity
2011-05-27T08:54:06Z

On 05/26/2011 03:56 PM, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> > Should be more like that one with correct image path:
> huh, now I got a bit lost :)
> I tried running both:
> /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -M pc-0.13 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name vmtst04 -uuid 1f8328b8-8849-11e0-91e9-00259009d78c -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=char
> monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/vmtst04.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=localtime -boot c -drive file=/dev/vgshared/vmtst04-1,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -netdev tap,fd=14,id=hostnet0 -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=00:16:3e:18:04:00,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -usb -vnc 0.0.0.0:24104 -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4
>
> and simplified:
> /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -M pc-0.13 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -rtc base=localtime -boot c -drive file=/dev/vgshared/vmtst04-1,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,driv
> e=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -vnc 0.0.0.0:24104 /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -M pc-0.13 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -boot c -drive file=/dev/vgshared/vmtst04-1,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -vnc 0.0.0.0:24104
>

Try appending ,cache=none to the -drive parameter?

Maybe we have a regression with writethrough block devices (a bad idea
anyway).

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