From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Bug: automatic reboot winxp hanging on vnc... Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:40:27 -0700 Message-ID: <48566D4B.3020501@qumranet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Besser Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:20452 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755310AbYFPNka (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:40:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Thomas Besser wrote: > Hi all, > > Once again, I posted this already in march with not uptodate kvm version. > Now we have kvm-69 and the same behavior on debian etch host (self > backported from sid). > > We are running an winxp client as kvm guest (with vnc option) all day long > (license management software). So automatic windows updates are activated. > > Guest ist started like: > kvm -vnc :0 -usbdevice tablet -usbdevice host:064f:0bd7 -usbdevice > host:0529:0001 -k de -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=00:50:56:00:08:15 -net > tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap21,script=no -m > 256 -localtime -daemonize ./lizenzknecht.raw > > On MS patch days steadily the guest hangs on automatic reboot, until one > connect with vnc to it. Instantly and without any user action the reboot > takes place after that. > This ought to be fixed in kvm-70 (long overdue, but out soon). -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.