Re: kvm hardlocks on hp dv9010us

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Piotr Jaroszyński wrote:
> Hello,
>
> kvm-85 with vanilla kernel 2.6.29.3 (kvm modules from kernel) hard locks for me:
> - sometimes at the very beginning, just after the QEMU window opens,
> but nothing is displayed before the hardlock.
> - sometimes during runtime with various guests: e.g. Windows XP 64bit
> and Exherbo 64bit [1]. The latter one seems to trigger it very often,
> so I should be able to test any fixes quickly.
>
> It has been also happening with other guest OSes and older versions of
> kvm and older kernels.
>
> This is how i run kvm:
>
> kvm \
>         -hda /home/data/guests/exherbo-kvm-amd64-20090504.img \
>         -localtime \
>         -net nic -net tap,script=no,downscript=no,ifname=tap0
>
> Also tried taskset 1 kvm ...
>
> I have a hp dv9010us laptop (one of those that hard locked before
> CONFIG_IO_DELAY_* options were introduced in kernel - not sure if it
> may be related at all).
>
> Is there anything I could do to debug it and provide more info?
>   

Are you updated to the latest BIOS revision?


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