qemu-kvm-0.11.0-rc1 guests failing without noapic (on x86_64 host)

qemu-kvm-0.11.0-rc1 guests failing without noapic (on x86_64 host)

[Charles Duffy]

Howdy.

The libguestfs kernel and appliance I've been using successfully with 
qemu-kvm-0.10.6 and prior fails horribly with qemu-kvm-0.11.0-rc1 unless 
'noapic' is passed on the kernel command line:

/usr/bin/qemu-kvm /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -drive 
file=/local/fvte-q/.fvte/states/vms/15a54e63c1d84e2ee295ce4a5df72740940292e7/disks/da.qcow2,snapshot=on,if=ide 
-m 500 -no-reboot -kernel /usr/lib64/guestfs/vmlinuz.epel-5.x86_64 
-initrd /usr/lib64/guestfs/initramfs.epel-5.x86_64.img -append panic=1 
console=ttyS0 guestfs=10.0.2.4:6666 guestfs_verbose=1 -nographic -serial 
stdio -net channel,6666:unix:/tmp/libguestfsbx4t9L/sock,server,nowait 
-net user,vlan=0 -net nic,model=e1000,vlan=0 -no-hpet -rtc-td-hack
Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 (mockbuild@builder10.centos.org) (gcc 
version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Thu May 7 10:35:59 EDT 
2009
Command line: panic=1 console=ttyS0 guestfs=10.0.2.4:6666 guestfs_verbose=1
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
  BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
  BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001f3f0000 (usable)
  BIOS-e820: 000000001f3f0000 - 000000001f400000 (ACPI data)
  BIOS-e820: 00000000fffbc000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
DMI 2.4 present.
No NUMA configuration found
Faking a node at 0000000000000000-000000001f3f0000
Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-000000001f3f0000
Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range
disabling kdump
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xb008
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 6:2 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x04] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x05] lapic_id[0x05] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x06] lapic_id[0x06] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x07] lapic_id[0x07] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x08] lapic_id[0x08] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x09] lapic_id[0x09] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0a] lapic_id[0x0a] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0b] lapic_id[0x0b] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0c] lapic_id[0x0c] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0d] lapic_id[0x0d] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0e] lapic_id[0x0e] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0f] lapic_id[0x0f] disabled)
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 5 global_irq 5 high level)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 10 global_irq 10 high level)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 11 global_irq 11 high level)
Setting APIC routing to physical flat
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Nosave address range: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
Nosave address range: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e8000
Nosave address range: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 1f400000:e0bbc000)
SMP: Allowing 16 CPUs, 15 hotplug CPUs
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 124876
Kernel command line: panic=1 console=ttyS0 guestfs=10.0.2.4:6666 
guestfs_verbose=1
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 16384 bytes)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Checking aperture...
Memory: 443584k/511936k available (2494k kernel code, 67964k reserved, 
1262k data, 200k init)
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4794.11 BogoMIPS 
(lpj=2397056)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Initializing.
selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
ACPI: Core revision 20060707
..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Try using the 
'noapic' kernel parameter

  <0>Rebooting in 1 seconds..sock_read_event: 0x1015160 g->state = 1, fd 
= 3, events = 0x1
stdout_event: 0x1015160: child process died
wait_ready: guestfs_wait_ready failed, see earlier error messages at 
/usr/bin/virt-inspector line 217.
closing guestfs handle 0x1015160 (state 0)


This has also been observed during installation of a RHEL4 i386 guest; 
logs at http://gist.github.com/165997

Re: qemu-kvm-0.11.0-rc1 guests failing without noapic (on x86_64 host)

[Charles Duffy]

Charles Duffy wrote:
> Howdy.
> 
> The libguestfs kernel and appliance I've been using successfully with 
> qemu-kvm-0.10.6 and prior fails horribly with qemu-kvm-0.11.0-rc1 unless 
> 'noapic' is passed on the kernel command line:

To follow up with a quick note -- I have quite a lot of "Unsupported 
delivery mode 7" in my host's dmesg when this happens.

Host is running upstream, unpatched 2.6.30.4.

Re: qemu-kvm-0.11.0-rc1 guests failing without noapic (on x86_64 host)

[Avi Kivity]

On 08/11/2009 11:53 PM, Charles Duffy wrote:
> Howdy.
>
> The libguestfs kernel and appliance I've been using successfully with 
> qemu-kvm-0.10.6 and prior fails horribly with qemu-kvm-0.11.0-rc1 
> unless 'noapic' is passed on the kernel command line:
>

What about qemu-kvm.git master?

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

Re: qemu-kvm-0.11.0-rc1 guests failing without noapic (on x86_64 host)

[Charles Duffy]

Figured this out --

It's actually a consequence of the Fedora packaging I'm using relying on 
an external BIOS (built as part of the Bochs package); the BIOS 
installed by qemu-kvm-0.11.0-rc1 works just fine.

Apologies for the noise.