From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Izik Eidus Subject: Re: Cannot install Win XP on AMD X2 with kvm-51 Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:11:15 +0200 Message-ID: <4735E633.8040401@qumranet.com> References: <200711091819.18774@dolan> <200711101444.08970@dolan> <4735BAA4.5010202@qumranet.com> <200711101802.37781@dolan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: W.Opr-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200711101802.37781@dolan> 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 Werner Opriel wrote: > Am Samstag, 10. November 2007 15:05 schrieb Izik Eidus: > >> ok, please try out -no-kvm-irqchip, and if this isnt helping >> you might checkout kvm-36 and report what happen there >> (in this days we are doing some serioes work to improved greatly the amd >> support) >> > > With kvm-36 and pressing F7 to use Standard PC HAL: > > qemu-system-x86_64 -hda xp.img -cdrom /iso/xp.iso -boot > d -m 512 > > the windows guest always fails to reboot, it then hangs without any errors or > messages, but doing a manually reboot works well and finally the installation > ended successfully. > > Starting the guest in bridged mode with: > > qemu-system-x86_64 xp.img -usb -usbdevice tablet -monitor stdio -m 512 \ > -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap0,script=/etc/qemu-ifup > > seems to work fast and stable so far. > I tried to install a program, create users and start some tasks ... and i > haven't seen any errors yet, except for the reboot issue. > ok, good to hear that at least once we had that work, as i said we hope to solve the amd problems that we have in newer versions of kvm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/