[ kvm-Bugs-1814637 ] Windows 2000 setup unstable

[ kvm-Bugs-1814637 ] Windows 2000 setup unstable

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Bugs item #1814637, was opened at 2007-10-16 20:39
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Technologov (technologov)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Windows 2000 setup unstable

Initial Comment:
The testing reveals that Windows 2000 setup stucks very often after the reboot and before the "Regional Settings" stage.

Host: Fedora7, 64-bit, Intel CPU, KVM-46.

(A different error happens on AMD machines. But this bug focuses on Intel)

Those errors are not always reproduceble, and those fail about half of the time.

Tested with:
qemu-kvm -hda /disks/win2000.vmdk -cdrom /iso/win2000.iso -m 128 -boot d

-Alexey "Technologov". 16.10.2007.

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[ kvm-Bugs-1814637 ] Windows 2000 setup unstable

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Bugs item #1814637, was opened at 2007-10-16 20:39
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Technologov (technologov)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Windows 2000 setup unstable

Initial Comment:
The testing reveals that Windows 2000 setup stucks very often after the reboot and before the "Regional Settings" stage.

Host: Fedora7, 64-bit, Intel CPU, KVM-46.

(A different error happens on AMD machines. But this bug focuses on Intel)

Those errors are not always reproduceble, and those fail about half of the time.

Tested with:
qemu-kvm -hda /disks/win2000.vmdk -cdrom /iso/win2000.iso -m 128 -boot d

-Alexey "Technologov". 16.10.2007.

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>Comment By: Jes Sorensen (jessorensen)
Date: 2010-06-11 11:16

Message:
Hi,

Again looking through old bugs

Could you please let us know if this is still a problem with a recent
QEMU/KVM. If not, lets close this bug.

Thanks,
Jes


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Comment By: Technologov (technologov)
Date: 2007-11-01 12:59

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Update: this seems to be VMDK-related issue.

Windows 2000 setup works fine with qcow2 and raw formats.

-Technologov

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Comment By: Technologov (technologov)
Date: 2007-11-01 08:17

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=1839746
Originator: YES

Update: 
There are 3 ways to see if you have buggy version of KVM -
1. Detecting devices setup step in the buggy version takes ~25-30
minutes.
2. You will get "not enough disk space" (-win2k-hack will not help you!)
3. You will get strange error saying: "SAM User database damaged" and
setup will close.

KVM-36-1 seems to be the commit, that destroyed Windows 2000. (SHA:
263773f7a6606efda85f7b184a067b5f560ed39b)

-Technologov

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Comment By: Technologov (technologov)
Date: 2007-10-17 19:31

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Originator: YES

While this is strange, but this Win2000 stage often succeeds if I want
about 20 minutes.

Just usually people don't have that _much_ patience, and they shut down
VMs in about 5 minutes of non-progress.

-Technologov

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Comment By: Technologov (technologov)
Date: 2007-10-17 10:00

Message:
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Originator: YES

File Added: KVM46-VMX64-Windows2000-loop-screenshot.jpg

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Comment By: Technologov (technologov)
Date: 2007-10-17 09:45

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Update: The guest is not fully dead: the mouse responds, but it is looped
forever trying to detect some kind of hardware.

I made strace logs & screenshot.

-Technologov

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[ kvm-Bugs-1814637 ] Windows 2000 setup unstable

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Bugs item #1814637, was opened at 2007-10-16 20:39
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Out of Date
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Technologov (technologov)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Windows 2000 setup unstable

Initial Comment:
The testing reveals that Windows 2000 setup stucks very often after the reboot and before the "Regional Settings" stage.

Host: Fedora7, 64-bit, Intel CPU, KVM-46.

(A different error happens on AMD machines. But this bug focuses on Intel)

Those errors are not always reproduceble, and those fail about half of the time.

Tested with:
qemu-kvm -hda /disks/win2000.vmdk -cdrom /iso/win2000.iso -m 128 -boot d

-Alexey "Technologov". 16.10.2007.

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>Comment By: Jes Sorensen (jessorensen)
Date: 2011-03-03 10:29

Message:
No reply from bug submitter to query of June 11, so closing as out of date.

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Comment By: Jes Sorensen (jessorensen)
Date: 2010-06-11 11:16

Message:
Hi,

Again looking through old bugs

Could you please let us know if this is still a problem with a recent
QEMU/KVM. If not, lets close this bug.

Thanks,
Jes


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Comment By: Technologov (technologov)
Date: 2007-11-01 12:59

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=1839746
Originator: YES

Update: this seems to be VMDK-related issue.

Windows 2000 setup works fine with qcow2 and raw formats.

-Technologov

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Comment By: Technologov (technologov)
Date: 2007-11-01 08:17

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=1839746
Originator: YES

Update: 
There are 3 ways to see if you have buggy version of KVM -
1. Detecting devices setup step in the buggy version takes ~25-30
minutes.
2. You will get "not enough disk space" (-win2k-hack will not help you!)
3. You will get strange error saying: "SAM User database damaged" and
setup will close.

KVM-36-1 seems to be the commit, that destroyed Windows 2000. (SHA:
263773f7a6606efda85f7b184a067b5f560ed39b)

-Technologov

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Comment By: Technologov (technologov)
Date: 2007-10-17 19:31

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=1839746
Originator: YES

While this is strange, but this Win2000 stage often succeeds if I want
about 20 minutes.

Just usually people don't have that _much_ patience, and they shut down
VMs in about 5 minutes of non-progress.

-Technologov

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Comment By: Technologov (technologov)
Date: 2007-10-17 10:00

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=1839746
Originator: YES

File Added: KVM46-VMX64-Windows2000-loop-screenshot.jpg

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Comment By: Technologov (technologov)
Date: 2007-10-17 09:45

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=1839746
Originator: YES

Update: The guest is not fully dead: the mouse responds, but it is looped
forever trying to detect some kind of hardware.

I made strace logs & screenshot.

-Technologov

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You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=1814637&group_id=180599