From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Windows XP PFN_LIST_CORRUPT error during install. Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:17:20 +0200 Message-ID: <47133020.1010908@qumranet.com> References: <1192220666.8694.19.camel@beth> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel To: John Clemens Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1192220666.8694.19.camel@beth> 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 John Clemens wrote: > Not much detail here but I'll post all I can. > > KVM-46 (from tarball, using kvm-46 modules), ubuntu gutsy > 2.6.22-14-generic amd64, Turion X2 with SVM, 1GB total memory on > laptop. > > Was in the middle of an windows xp pro sp2 install using this command > line: > > sudo ~/kvm46/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 368 -boot c -cdrom winxp.iso -hda > winxp-pro-work.qcow2 -vnc :1 -net user -net > nic,mac=00:11:22:33:44:55:66,model=rtl8139 -localtime > > While installing, I went to do other work, which involved starting > another VM running a linux boot CD with 256MB of ram. Was running both > side by side without problem, other than the fact my host X-windows was > sluggish due to the lack of total ram available (1G-368M-256M). When > finished with the other VM, I shut it down, and a few seconds later the > windows install which was almost complete in the first VM threw a > bluescreen with a 'PFN_LIST_CORRUPT' error. Note that this was in the > second stage of the install where windows had already rebooted into the > install environment on the hard disk and was 'registering components' or > something. > > Nothing in the kernel log on the host that I can see, anywhere else I > can look? > > Unrelated, but earlier I tried a windows install with '-clock dynticks' > and windows installation would eventually fail with an > IRQL__NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL (or something like that.. I'm working from > memory). Removing the 'clock' option made it work fine. Not sure if > it's supposed to work yet or not, but it didn't for me. > > Unfortunately there's a problem with irq injection on amd that I haven't had time yet to track down. You can try using the Standard PC HAL as detailed in http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Windows_ACPI_Workaround (see the "If you're installing" comment). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/