Re: Starting a VM reboots my machine

[Cam Macdonell <cam-edFDblaTWIyXbbII50Afww@public.gmane.org>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Cam Macdonell wrote:
>> Dor Laor wrote:
>>   
>>> Cam Macdonell wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm running an AMD
>>>>
>>>> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
>>>> cpu family      : 15
>>>> model           : 75
>>>> model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
>>>>
>>>> with 4GB of RAM and Scientific Linux 5.0. I've compiled kvm-48 on it and
>>>> the compile works and loading the modules works fine, the only dmesg
>>>> line referring to kvm is SELinux: initialized (dev kvm_anon_inodefs,
>>>> type kvm_anon_inodefs), not configured for labeling.
>>>>
>>>> However, when I boot any KVM, the machine reboots.  It works fine with
>>>> the no-kvm flag.  Has anyone else seen this behaviour?
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> We have some instabilities with AMD. These issues are under debug these 
>>> days.
>>> Can you please supply netconsole debug messages from the host. This can 
>>> be very helpful.
>>> Also what's the guest OS?
>>>     
>> Hi Dor,
>>
>> Sorry for the delay, here's the netConsole dump.  This is trying to boot 
>> FC6 on Scientific Linux 5.  Let me know if you need more info.
>> This is with kvm-50 with the flag -no-kvm-irqchip.  Also, this time it 
>> didn't reboot, but froze.
>>   
> 
> Does running the vm with 'taskset 1' help?
> 

It runs a few seconds longer and then reboots.  With netconsole, I don't 
always get a full dump, here's what I have.

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000041 RIP:
  [<ffffffff800285cd>] sock_poll+0x11/0x18
PGD 10fcf0067 PUD 114b53067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
last sysfs file: /class/misc/kvm/dev
CPU 1
Modules linked in: kvm_amd(U) kvm(U) netconsole nfs lockd fscache 
nfs_acl autofs4 hidp rfcomm l2cap bluetooth sunrpc dm_mirror dm_mod 
video sbs i2c_ec button battery asus_acpi acpi_memhotplug ac ipv6 lp 
snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event 
snd_seq snd_pcm_oss parport_pc snd_mixer_oss shpchp parport sg snd_pcm 
i2c_nforce2 snd_mpu401 snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device 
snd_timer fglrx

Cam

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