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From: Erik Rull <erik.rull@rdsoftware.de>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] git bisect results: ec757c67c40a56492001487e69272f62144fd124 breaks windows boot in qemu-kvm
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:05:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F29B724.7020008@rdsoftware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F298C42.6050700@siemens.com>

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2012-02-01 13:52, Erik Rull wrote:
>>   Hi all,
>>
>> first of all I'm a bit confused:
>>
>> What is the difference between qemu with command line option --enable-kvm
>> and qemu-kvm?
>> It seems to be a difference in code so far, from the performance point of
>> view it seems to be the same...
>>
>> Now my issue that lead me to a git bisect on qemu-kvm:
>> The following commit / merge breaks my windows guest boot sequence and
>> causes resets infinitely:
>
> Cannot confirm yet, but I have no ACPI-free Windows installation at
> hand. Where does it reset, after the BIOS?
>
>> ec757c67c40a56492001487e69272f62144fd124 Merge branch 'upstream-merge' into
>> next
>> Thu, 5 Jan 2012 11:00:07 +0000 (13:00 +0200)    Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com>
>>
>>
>> Interesting: qemu with --enable-kvm master and the same command line
>> options as qemu-kvm runs perfect.
>> My command line options are:
>> qemu-system-x86_64 -serial /dev/ttyS2 -readconfig /etc/ich9-ehci-uhci.cfg
>> -device usb-host,bus=ehci.0 -device usb-tablet -drive
>> file=/dev/sda2,cache=off -m 1024 -net nic,macaddr=$MACADDR -net
>> tap,script=/etc/qemu-ifup -no-acpi -monitor stdio -L /usr/X11R6/share/qemu
>> -boot c -localtime
>
> Is the BIOS at /usr/X11R6/share/qemu in sync with the qemu version you
> try? Does leaving out options change the picture?
>
> Jan
>

It happens directly after the windows boot progress bar is completed (I 
boot without logo)

With the -no-kvm-irqchip it seems to be fine...

Best regards,

Erik

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-01 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-01 12:52 [Qemu-devel] git bisect results: ec757c67c40a56492001487e69272f62144fd124 breaks windows boot in qemu-kvm Erik Rull
2012-02-01 13:40 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-01 14:02   ` Erik Rull
2012-02-01 14:42     ` Jan Kiszka
2012-02-01 15:43       ` Erik Rull
2012-02-01 16:01         ` Jan Kiszka
2012-02-01 16:10           ` Erik Rull
2012-02-01 19:02 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-02-01 22:05   ` Erik Rull [this message]
2012-02-02 13:18     ` Erik Rull
2012-02-02 13:21       ` Jan Kiszka
2012-02-02 14:07         ` Erik Rull
2012-02-02 14:17           ` Jan Kiszka

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