From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BqJEm-0007Hw-Kq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:18:56 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BqJEl-0007GT-GR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:18:56 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BqJEl-0007GQ-Da for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:18:55 -0400 Received: from [62.67.200.164] (helo=smtprelay03.ispgateway.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BqJBH-0008IM-M1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:15:19 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO chown.ath.cx) (519556@[80.135.27.14]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay03.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 29 Jul 2004 22:15:06 -0000 Received: from duron.hell ([192.168.10.71]) by chown.ath.cx with esmtp (Exim 4.23) id 1BqJB3-0006cy-EV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:15:05 +0200 Received: from duron.hell (localhost.hell [127.0.0.1]) by duron.hell (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6TMDVbg004146 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:13:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from greg@chown.ath.cx) Received: (from greg@localhost) by duron.hell (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i6TMDVVj004145 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:13:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from greg@chown.ath.cx) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:13:30 +0200 From: Grigori Goronzy Message-ID: <20040729221330.GA3537@chown.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [Qemu-devel] QEMU crashes host system Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi, on two of my boxes qemu reliably crashes the whole host system. It seems to be independent of the used OS, it happens in FreeBSD 4.10 and 5.2.1 as well as in Linux. Either this appears as a hard crash or the kernel panics. Both machines are quite different from each other; the first has an AMD Duron, the other is an older Pentium3-based machine. The only similarity between them is that they both use a Via chipset and have an NVidia graphics card. I don't think the hardware is at failure--both machines work stably for everything I use them for, one of them even runs 24/7 without problems. Still, I wanted to be sure and checked the RAM and CPU using memtest86 and mprime. Even after long runtime, these tools did not report any problems. So, what could it be? This is really driving me mad. I'm not really asking for a "solution" as I already have given up on this, but merely for people who have experienced similar problems. greg -- "XML is a giant step in no direction at all." Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp