From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: win2003 guest stutters Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:49:59 +0300 Message-ID: <46E7C457.3030707@qumranet.com> References: <6b9952490709100408u5bd07946oc5b36dbbb20237db@mail.gmail.com> <6b9952490709101314w40ff90cfs72a32eac8eab4635@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Joris Return-path: In-Reply-To: <6b9952490709101314w40ff90cfs72a32eac8eab4635-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Joris wrote: > Hi, > > > Please CC me, I'm not a subscriber to the list. > > I have a Debian unstable 64bit host on an intel S3000 quad core xeon > X3210. Kernel 2.6.22-2-amd64 (debian flavour) and KVM28 and KVM36. > > Linux guests run very well. > > > I installed Win2003 EE SP2 with --no-kvm, and disabled ACPI in the > windows setup. > Now I'm running this image with kvm -no-acpi -m 1024 -hda > w2k3image.qcow2 -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap3. > (note I have KVM enabled at this point) > > This image works well half of the time (very responsive and no > interruptions), but after some time it will completely freeze for a > period of time (sometimes seconds, sometimes minutes it would seem). > Both the network and the console are completely unresponsive. > > I can't see a pattern as to when it happens: sometimes the guest will > work for 10 minutes without a hitch, sometimes I can't make it past > the login screen. > Please try using 'taskset' to pin the VM to one cpu and report. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/