Re: Internal error, emulation failure when trying to boot Win7 install

[Guido Winkelmann <guido@ambient-entertainment.de>]

Some more information:

I have upgraded to Kernel 3.12.6, and the problem is still there.

However, when starting the same machine manually with simpler command line 
like 

qemu-kvm -cpu Nehalem -machine accel=kvm -m 4G /virtual_disks/win7_master.img

qemu will not crash, but Windows (in the guest machine) will still fail to 
boot up all the way. It bluescreens once, restarts, then manages to start some 
graphical computer repair wizard which will run for a long time and then 
display a message saying it could not repair the computer, offering to send 
the problem report to Microsoft... It didn't show an error message that would 
tell me what is actually wrong, though.

	Guido

On Tuesday 07 January 2014 19:48:41 Guido Winkelmann wrote:
>Hi,
>
>When trying to boot a Windows 7 install from a local virtual disks, qemu
>stops with the messages:
>
>KVM internal error. Suberror: 1
>emulation failure
>
>I've started qemu with libvirt. This is the output from libvirt's logfile:
>
>2014-01-07 18:22:10.988+0000: starting up
>LC_ALL=C
>PATH=/bin:/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/b
>in:/usr/local/sbin HOME=/ USER=root QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice /usr/bin/qemu-kvm
>-name
>win7_master,process=qemu:win7_master -S -machine pc-
>i440fx-1.7,accel=kvm,usb=off -m 4096 -realtime mlock=off -smp
>4,sockets=4,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 0d640aa9-a88c-164b-398c-14186445d2a8 -no-
>user-config -nodefaults -chardev
>socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/win7_master.monitor,server,n
>owait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime
>-no- shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -device
>ahci,id=ahci0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-
>serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -drive file=/virtual_disks/systemrescuecd-
>x86-3.8.1.iso,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-1,readonly=on,format=raw,cache=none -
>device ide-cd,bus=ide.0,unit=1,drive=drive-ide0-0-1,id=ide0-0-1 -drive
>file=/virtual_disks/win7_master.img,if=none,id=drive-
>sata0-0-0,format=qcow2,cache=none -device ide-hd,bus=ahci0.0,drive=drive-
>sata0-0-0,id=sata0-0-0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=22,id=hostnet0 -device
>e1000,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:e1:63:d3,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -
>chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0
>- chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent -device
>virtserialport,bus=virtio-
>serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -
>device usb-tablet,id=input0 -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-
>ticketing,seamless-migration=on -k de -device
>VGA,id=video0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -device
>intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-
>codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-
>pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6
>char device redirected to /dev/pts/3 (label charserial0)
>((null):14946): SpiceWorker-Warning **:
>red_worker.c:11477:dev_destroy_primary_surface: double destroy of primary
>surface
>((null):14946): SpiceWorker-Warning **: red_worker.c:9663:red_create_surface:
>condition `surface->context.canvas' reached
>main_channel_link: add main channel client
>main_channel_handle_parsed: net test: latency 0.137000 ms, bitrate 9799043062
>bps (9345.095694 Mbps)
>red_dispatcher_set_cursor_peer:
>inputs_connect: inputs channel client create
>KVM internal error. Suberror: 1
>emulation failure
>EAX=00000200 EBX=0000aa55 ECX=00000007 EDX=00000080
>ESI=00007bd0 EDI=00000800 EBP=000007be ESP=00007be0
>EIP=00000684 EFL=00003202 [-------] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0
>ES =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00809300
>CS =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00809b00
>SS =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00809300
>DS =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00809300
>FS =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00809300
>GS =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00809300
>LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200
>TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00
>GDT=     000f69e0 00000037
>IDT=     00000000 000003ff
>CR0=00000010 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000
>DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000
>DR3=0000000000000000
>DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400
>EFER=0000000000000000
>Code=7c 68 01 00 68 10 00 b4 42 8a 56 00 8b f4 cd 13 9f 83 c4 10 <9e> eb 14
>b8 01 02 bb 00 7c 8a 56 00 8a 76 01 8a 4e 02 8a 6e 03 cd 13 66 61 73 1c fe
>4e 11 qemu: terminating on signal 15 from pid 3795
>2014-01-07 18:22:15.777+0000: shutting down
>
>This happened with qemu 1.5 and 1.7. The linux kernel in use is
>3.10.25-gentoo The host CPU looks like this in lscpu:
>
>Architecture:          x86_64
>CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
>Byte Order:            Little Endian
>CPU(s):                8
>On-line CPU(s) list:   0-7
>Thread(s) per core:    2
>Core(s) per socket:    4
>Socket(s):             1
>NUMA node(s):          1
>Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
>CPU family:            6
>Model:                 26
>Stepping:              5
>CPU MHz:               1600.000
>BogoMIPS:              5345.33
>Virtualization:        VT-x
>L1d cache:             32K
>L1i cache:             32K
>L2 cache:              256K
>L3 cache:              8192K
>NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-7
>
>The Windows install in question is an image that has been pulled from a
>working Windows 7 install (on a physical machine).
>
>	Guido