[ kvm-Bugs-2001452 ] Restarted Windows 2003 Server guests have disk corruption

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Bugs item #2001452, was opened at 2008-06-24 07:27
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Status: Open
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>Priority: 7
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Submitted By: gwachs (gerdwachs)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Restarted Windows 2003 Server guests have disk corruption

Initial Comment:
I have a number of Windows 2003 32Bit guests.

I use them to perform installation and configuration
tests of a large software product.

During these tests, the guests are restarted.

Randomly, the guests produce disk corruption messages
after a restart.

The following are two examples :

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Windows  Registry Hive Recovered

Registry hive (file): SOFTWARE was corrupted and it has
been recovered. Some data might have been lost.
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The system cannot log on due to the following error:
Unable to complete the requested operation because of
either a catastrophic media failure or a data structure
corruption on the disk.
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OS     : Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64

Kernel : 2.6.24-18-server #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux

KVM    : kvm-70

CPU    : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz

flags  : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xt

Start Command : sudo /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -hda asit51ascs.img \
                -m 1024 -std-vga -boot c -k sv -usb -usbdevice tablet -snapshot -vnc :51 \
               -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=00:16:3e:00:51:00 -net tap,vlan=0,script=/etc/qemu-ifup-br0 \
               -net nic,vlan=1,macaddr=00:16:3e:00:51:01 -net tap,vlan=1,script=/etc/qemu-ifup-br1

no-kvm : Cannot do due to the loss of performance.
         Tests execute time is 7 hours with kvm.




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>Comment By: gwachs (gerdwachs)
Date: 2008-06-25 09:26

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Windows 2003 Guests also have random BSOD

The problems in this bug report put a stop to running Windows 2003 Server
on kvm
at this point in time.

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Comment By: gwachs (gerdwachs)
Date: 2008-06-24 10:33

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The message : apic write: bad size=1 fee00030 
does not occur when using the option : -no-kvm-irqchip
Will continue testing.

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Comment By: gwachs (gerdwachs)
Date: 2008-06-24 10:15

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The message : apic write: bad size=1 fee00030 

only occurs when the guest is started using kvm.

i.e does not occur with the -no-kvm option.

When using the -no-acpi option, the guest does not start kvm or no kvm

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Comment By: gwachs (gerdwachs)
Date: 2008-06-24 09:32

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Noted that I get the following in the linux console :

apic write: bad size=1 fee00030


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