ACPI issue with F8 guest

ACPI issue with F8 guest

[David Brown]

For some reason acpi refuses to start on a Fedora 8 guest. The dmesg
says at the very begining "no DMI BIOS year, acpi=force is required to
enable ACPI". I then put acpi=force on the command line and it
sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. What I mean by works is
sometimes it issues the acpi shutdown command and halts qemu and
sometimes I have to kill the process, and all I see on dmesg is
"Halting system...\nSystem halted." It seems like after I login to
gnome in the guest (and it starts allocating memory for gnome) then
open up a gnome-terminal and halt the guest it doesn't work but if I
don't go into X at all it works fine.... odd.

Software in Host:
kvm-53 linux-2.6.23.8 i686 and x86_64

Command line to start Guest:
qemu-system-x86_64 -net nic -net tap -m 512 -smp 2 fedora8.img

Software in Guest:
Standard updated Fedora 8 image.

Thanks,
- David Brown

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Re: ACPI issue with F8 guest

[Avi Kivity]

David Brown wrote:
> For some reason acpi refuses to start on a Fedora 8 guest. The dmesg
> says at the very begining "no DMI BIOS year, acpi=force is required to
> enable ACPI". I then put acpi=force on the command line and it
> sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. What I mean by works is
> sometimes it issues the acpi shutdown command and halts qemu and
> sometimes I have to kill the process, and all I see on dmesg is
> "Halting system...\nSystem halted." It seems like after I login to
> gnome in the guest (and it starts allocating memory for gnome) then
> open up a gnome-terminal and halt the guest it doesn't work but if I
> don't go into X at all it works fine.... odd.
>
>   

Known issue (cause not yet identified).


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Re: ACPI issue with F8 guest

[David Brown]

> Known issue (cause not yet identified).

I wonder how many of these things are qemu's fault really...

- David Brown

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Re: ACPI issue with F8 guest

[Avi Kivity]

David Brown wrote:
>> Known issue (cause not yet identified).
>>     
>
> I wonder how many of these things are qemu's fault really...
>
>   

Many, but knowing that doesn't help in any way.  There's no better open 
source hardware emulation platform I know of.

(does the issue reproduce with -no-kvm? it's worth checking)

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