kvm-40 and above: Win XP SP2 install crashes on AMD64 & 2.6.22.5-49

kvm-40 and above: Win XP SP2 install crashes on AMD64 & 2.6.22.5-49

[Klaus Kudielka]

Hello,

Starting with kvm-40, I am not able to install a Win XP SP2 guest any more.
I consistently get a BSOD somewhere in the 2nd stage install.
Sometimes it is IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, otherwise STOP: 0x0000008E
or STOP: 0x0000000A

In most failure cases I also get a kernel message:
emulation failed (mmio) rip 426 c4 c4 00 00

The hardware is an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ with 3G of RAM.
The host is a FC6 installation with a pretty recent kernel (2.6.22.5-49)
I configured kvm only with --prefix=/opt/kvm
The command to run the installation was

/opt/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -no-acpi -hda /dev/Guests/xp_kvm -m 1024 -net nic,mac=00:16:3e:11:80:49,model=rtl8139 -cdrom /d/3/oe1kib/img/windows_xp_sp2_en.iso -boot d

I always select the "Standard PC" HAL during install.

On kvm-39 & 36, the install completes fine. On kvm-40,41,43,44 it fails
with the symptoms described above. I have not tested others, but the
tendency seems clear.

[With -no-kvm, qemu-system-x86_64 does not crash the guest, but Win XP seems
to be "Installing Devices" for the rest of its life. The session is alive,
but no progress anymore. Likely a different problem]

Any idea? Or even a fix?

Regards, Klaus

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Re: kvm-40 and above: Win XP SP2 install crashes on AMD64 & 2.6.22.5-49

[Avi Kivity]

Klaus Kudielka wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Starting with kvm-40, I am not able to install a Win XP SP2 guest any more.
> I consistently get a BSOD somewhere in the 2nd stage install.
> Sometimes it is IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, otherwise STOP: 0x0000008E
> or STOP: 0x0000000A
>
> In most failure cases I also get a kernel message:
> emulation failed (mmio) rip 426 c4 c4 00 00
>
> The hardware is an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ with 3G of RAM.
> The host is a FC6 installation with a pretty recent kernel (2.6.22.5-49)
> I configured kvm only with --prefix=/opt/kvm
> The command to run the installation was
>
> /opt/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -no-acpi -hda /dev/Guests/xp_kvm -m 1024 -net nic,mac=00:16:3e:11:80:49,model=rtl8139 -cdrom /d/3/oe1kib/img/windows_xp_sp2_en.iso -boot d
>
> I always select the "Standard PC" HAL during install.
>
> On kvm-39 & 36, the install completes fine. On kvm-40,41,43,44 it fails
> with the symptoms described above. I have not tested others, but the
> tendency seems clear.
>
> [With -no-kvm, qemu-system-x86_64 does not crash the guest, but Win XP seems
> to be "Installing Devices" for the rest of its life. The session is alive,
> but no progress anymore. Likely a different problem]
>
> Any idea? Or even a fix?
>   

Can you do a bisect to find which commit caused the breakage?



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Re: kvm-40 and above: Win XP SP2 install crashes on AMD64 & 2.6.22.5-49

[Izik Eidus]

Klaus Kudielka wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Starting with kvm-40, I am not able to install a Win XP SP2 guest any more.
> I consistently get a BSOD somewhere in the 2nd stage install.
> Sometimes it is IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, otherwise STOP: 0x0000008E
> or STOP: 0x0000000A
>
>   
can you try runing it with -no-kvm-irqchip, and report the results?

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Re: kvm-40 and above: Win XP SP2 install crashes on AMD64 & 2.6.22.5-49

[Klaus Kudielka]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:51:26PM +0200, Izik Eidus wrote:
> can you try runing it with -no-kvm-irqchip, and report the results?

pretty much the same. I tried -40 and -44 and they both fail with the same
symptom described previously.

Regards, Klaus

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