Re: frequent guest lockup (and mouse/keyboard problems)

[Leonard Norrgard <leonard.norrgard-g2GXA8XeJSExHbG02/KK1g@public.gmane.org>]

Dor Laor wrote:
>> The guest OS is 32-bit Debian Etch (KDE), the host AMD64 X2 5200+.
>> Kvm runs in SDL, command line: kvm -m 80 -hda disk.qcow
>>
>> All of this happens with kvm trunk.
>>     
>
>
> I'm trying to replicate the problem. Running your Guest on AMD operton.
> So far every thing works ;) Let's see if it last the night.
> If so I'll decrease the memory from 384 to your 80M.
>   
It doesn't seem to be related to the amount of memory - I've tried
various amounts.

The fastest way I know to replicate this currently, is to install the
sun-java5-jre and sun-java5-plugin packages (in non-free) in the guest.
Then:

* Switch kvm to full-screen mode
* Open firefox and go to the, uh, operating system virtualization test
page at http://uk.games.yahoo.com/d/zpbook.html :)
* Once the java applet has loaded, click Play, select one of the images,
click start.
* Now solve the puzzle (rotate with right mouse button, drag with left).

Almost for every piece, I have a mouse hickup of one sort or other.

I just verified that this is still the case with the released 2.6.20
kernel (but kvm disabled in the kernel config and the modules instead
installed from kvm svn) and kvm svn r4384 (less than an hour old).

-- Leonard


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