Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Breakage with local APIC routing

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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Mohammed Gamal wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Jan Kiszka<jan.kiszka@web.de> wrote:
>> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>
>>>> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>>>>>> due to the change in revision 3371 (well, at that time, CVS was used,
>>>>>>> which was no better than Subversion) installation of win64 is broken
>>>>>>> in QEmu.  The commit message reads like this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   Don't route PIC interrupts through the local APIC if the local
>>>>>>>   APIC config says so. By Ari Kivity.
>>>>>> I recalled some earlier post on this which claimed to fix the issue and
>>>>>> found it in the archive:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/25415
>>>>> I tried this, and it changes the symptoms, indeed.  Instead of an endless
>>>>> loop, it results in a bluescreen.
>>>>>
>>>>> As the OP said that it worked for him, I guess it is either in commits
>>>>> that came after his post, or in my add-on patches.
>>>> So we are likely on the wrong path. Maybe we have to understand what
>>>> happens here first...
>>>>
>>>>> Hopefully I will find some time to work more on this bug.
>>>> Would be interesting to know
>>>>  - if pic_irq_request is continuously called or if it stops when windows
>>>>    hangs
>>>>  - what IRQ vectors are delivered
>>>>  - in what state the apic is, namely the s->lvt[APIC_LVT_LINT0]
>>> Sorry for the long delay.  I just don't have time to take care of the
>>> issue, but I quickly verified that it still does not work, with aa0cba4
>>> (Aug 13 2009).
>>>
>>> If you are still interested in this issue, could you give me a hint
>>> _where_ I should output _which_ values?  I'll gladly take time for that
>>> now.
>> If some OS does not properly install due to a possible emulation bug, I
>> am interested, for sure. Let's restart this by specifying the test case
>> more precisely: What version of Windows are you trying to install? What
>> is your qemu command line? Where does the installation fail? Are there
>> specific steps required during the installation to reproduce the problem?
>>
>> And one more question: Did you check that you were using the
>> corresponding BIOS to aa0cba4?
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>
> 
> In case this is considered relevant. I am also facing a bug with
> installing amd64 version of ubuntu-9.04. I first thought it was a
> possible bug in KVM, but even when using -no-kvm the guest still hangs
> just when starting to load the kernel.

Might be the same, might be a different issue. Same questions to you:
what is your command line, and are there specific steps required to
reproduce the issue? And I assume you also tried plain qemu, right?

Jan


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