Re: KVM-17 & WinXP network setup hangs

Avi Kivity
2007-03-20T15:27:38Z

Alessandro Sardo wrote:
> Hello KVM devs,
>
> I've just downloaded and checked out KVM-17. I tried
> installing a Windows XP SP2 guest, using the following
> script (notice how I did NOT use the '-no-acpi' flag):
>
> qemu -hda /var/vm/img/WinXP.img -cdrom
> /var/vm/iso/WinXP.iso -boot d -m 512
>
> The first phase of installation went straight without any
> problem - and it was quite faster than previous releases!
> Then, when the guest had to reboot, KVM crashed with the
> following output:
>
>
>

That's a known issue, we don't handle reboot on Intel.

> Not a big problem though, I just manually restarted it and
> kept going on with the second phase of the installation.
>
> This is where I got the big problem: after installing the
> devices and asking for the cd-key (among other things),
> the guest totally *stalled* while configuring the network.
> It just says "Installing the network...", but the progress
> bar is frozen - and there's no output on the shell. I've
> also tried with the '-net nic,model=rtl8139' flag, but the
> result was the same. I'm unable to complete the
> installation.
>
> Is there a work-around for this?

It may be related to unsynced timestamp counters. Can you try prefixing
your command with 'taskset 1'? Like so:

taskset 1 qemu -hda ...

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