Re: Problem with Ubuntu Edgy and AMD X2

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Franco Spinelli wrote:
> I am testing kvm on my new PC
> MB is Asus M2NPV-VM with AMD CPU X2.
> Installed OS is Ubuntu Edgy
>
> I get kvm tarball and compiled it.
>
> After installing gcc 3.4 I begin compile step
>
> On Ubuntu Edgy there is no uuid/uuid.h file so I have grab it from tar 
> file at Ubuntu repository and put it in qemu subdir of kvm
>
> On Ubuntu Edgy libuuid is in /lib/libuuid.so.1 so I make a link from it 
> to /lib/libuuid.so
>   

You're probably missing a package.  On Fedora Core, e2fsprogs-devel 
contains both libuuid.so and uuid.h.

> After this, I got kvm compile and install.
> I modprobe new module without any problem, create a disk image and 
> begint to install Windows XP on that.
> At formatting step it take a long time (about 25 min for a 6Gb of disk) 
> with 90% of CPU and only very little i/o activity.At about 99%, exit 
> from install with a message "impossible to format".
>
> Using dmesg command I geta lot of this error:
>
> [17192500.496000] kvm: unhandled rdmsr: 0xc0000081
>   

What cpu is this? A 32-bit Intel Core?


> I have also tried a workaround necessary for Xen on my MB. In install 
> procedure of XP I hit F5 key and used "Standard PC" from menu choice, 
> without any change
>
>
> Booting with -no-acpi flag an image file made by qemu (for first install 
> step) and by Xen (for install completition)  boot and work but I am not 
> able to activate network connection. I find a network adapter, I can 
> configure it but I have no response pinging other LAN PC.
>   

Unless you use ethernet bridging, ping will not work.  TCP from the 
guest to the outside world should work, but not from outside into the 
guest (in effect the guest is NATed by qemu).

See also http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~djw/qemu.html.

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