From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alon Levy Subject: Re: Problem after update windows VirtIO drivers Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:45:32 +0200 Message-ID: <52A5F3AC.3090705@redhat.com> References: <1386600306.2456.15.camel@cmar-laptop.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Carlos Rodrigues , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Vadim Rozenfeld Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:19719 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933863Ab3LIQpi (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:45:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1386600306.2456.15.camel@cmar-laptop.lan> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/09/2013 04:45 PM, Carlos Rodrigues wrote: > Hello, > > After update the VirtIO drivers for Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit, when > i reboot virtual machine, the windows OS get stuck on loading bar. > > The VirtIO drivers is the latest stable that i made the download from > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/stable/virtio-win-0.1-74.iso > > And i use version 1.2.1 of kvm and the OS of host is Centos 5.8. > > I try to install a fresh and clean version same Windows and same drivers > and get the same problem. With virtio-win-0.1-52 version of drivers, the > windows server works properly. > > I will use the oldest stable version of drivers, but anyone knows some > issue with latest drivers? > I have an issue that also existed with 0.65, on windows 7 64 bit: when I have qxl enabled as well I get a crash shortly after initialization of qxl (at the login screen) in a memory management function of the qxl driver, indicating something overwrote parts of the allocators accounting structures. When I disable the virtio driver (leaving the virtio device) the problem goes away. Vadim, is this a known problem? (sorry for hijacking the thread) > Regards, >