Re: Centrino Duo not working so hot

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

David Brown wrote:
> I remember this bug before and I thought I figured it out by using the
> bootloader on the image instead of using the -kernel and -initrd
> commandline options to qemu.
>
> However, the guest just stopping has come back. For some reason using
> the latest kvm with 2.6.21 both in fedora 7 (kvm-25) and debian
> unstable (kvm-17) the guest os just stops after a while. It stops at
> random places during the kernel boot and never gets further than
> starting udev.  Grub and other etherboot images work fine. Also, using
> -no-kvm (however really slow) works fine as well.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else has seen this?
>   

Does the problem occur with 'taskset 1 qemu ...'?  This pins the guest 
on one core.

>
> I remember Avi stating that this is a Core not 2, is this just a
> crappy cpu selection on my part (or Dells part)?
>   

The core-not-2's main problem is that I don't test regularly with it.  
It is slightly strange (no 64-bit support, hence some important msrs are 
missing) so it has triggered a lot of kvm bugs.

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