Re: problem upgrading to kvm-33

[Tony Smolar <tony.smolar-H+0wwilmMs3R7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>]

Dor Laor wrote:

>>Amit Shah wrote:
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>>>On Saturday 11 August 2007 08:48:41 Tony Smolar wrote:
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>>>>Hi,  I was currently using kvm-24, and I decided to try to upgrade to
>>>>the latest.
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>>>>My guest is XP-SP2 Home full edition.    When I tried to boot it
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>under
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>>>>kvm-33,  I eventually got a blue screen and a IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
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>>error.
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>>>>I removed 33, and installed kvm-26.    I was able to boot the VM
>>>>successfully with that.  So I guess this problem was introduced
>>>>somewhere between 27 and 33.   Is there a way to tweak the guest to
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>>get
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>>>>around this problem?
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>>>Does passing -no-acpi to qemu help?
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>>Hi,
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>>I forgot to mention that I tried that,   it didn't make a difference.
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>So you must use the standard HAL?
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>First can you please provide the cpu type, we had some problems on AMD.
>Second, what's the host's OS? Is it 32/64 bit? kernel version.
>Third, does -no-kvm works?
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It is an AMD X2 3800+
The host is Fedora core 5,   32-bit version.    I upgraded the kernel to 
2.6.20
-no-kvm does not work.

>Some sanities just for making sure:
>- Try running qemu with taskset -p 1
>- Add -L SOURCE_REPOSITROY_PATH_FOR_QEMU_PC-BIOS directory for making
>sure you use the right bios.bin
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I'll give these a shot and report back.

Tony Smolar


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