Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU with KVM does not start Win8 on kernel 3.4.67 and core2duo

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> On September 15, 2014 at 12:48 PM Erik Rull <erik.rull@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > On September 12, 2014 at 7:29 PM Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2014-09-12 19:15, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > > On 2014-09-12 14:29, Erik Rull wrote:
> > >>> On September 11, 2014 at 3:32 PM Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On 2014-09-11 15:25, Erik Rull wrote:
> > >>>>> On August 6, 2014 at 1:19 PM Erik Rull <erik.rull@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>>>> wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Hi all,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> I did already several tests and I'm not completely sure what's going
> > >>>>> wrong,
> > >>>>> but
> > >>>>> here my scenario:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> When I start up QEMU w/ KVM 1.7.0 on a Core2Duo machine running a
> > >>>>> vanilla
> > >>>>> kernel
> > >>>>> 3.4.67 to run a Windows 8.0 guest, the guest freezes at boot without
> > >>>>> any
> > >>>>> error.
> > >>>>> When I dump the CPU registers via "info registers", nothing changes,
> > >>>>> that
> > >>>>> means
> > >>>>> the system really stalled. Same happens with QEMU 2.0.0.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> But - when I run the very same guest using Kernel 2.6.32.12 and QEMU
> > >>>>> 1.7.0
> > >>>>> on
> > >>>>> the host side it works on the Core2Duo. Also the system above but just
> > >>>>> with
> > >>>>> an
> > >>>>> i3 or i5 CPU it works, too.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> I already disabled networking and USB for the guest and changed the
> > >>>>> graphics
> > >>>>> card - no effect. I assume that some mean bits and bytes have to be
> > >>>>> set
> > >>>>> up
> > >>>>> properly to get the thing running.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Any hint what to change / test would be really appreciated.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Thanks in advance,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Best regards,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Erik
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Hi all,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I opened a qemu bug report on that and Jan helped me creating a kvm
> > >>>> trace. I
> > >>>> attached it to the bug report.
> > >>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1366836
> > >>>>
> > >>>> If you have further questions, please let me know.
> > >>>
> > >>> "File possibly truncated. Need at least 346583040, but file size is
> > >>> 133414912."
> > >>>
> > >>> Does "trace-cmd report" work for you? Is your file larger?
> > >>>
> > >>> Again, please also validate the behavior on latest next branch from
> > >>> kvm.git.
> > >>>
> > >>> Jan
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> confirmed. The issue is still existing in the kvm.git Version of the
> > >> kernel.
> > >> The trace.tgz was uploaded to the bugtracker.
> > >
> > > Thanks. Could you provide a good-case of your setup as well, i.e. with
> > > that older kernel version? At least I'm not yet seeing something
> > > obviously wrong.
> >
> > Well, except that we have continuously EXTERNAL_INTERRUPTs, vector 0xf6,
> > throughout most of the trace. Maybe a self-IPI (this is single-core),
> > maybe something external that is stuck. You could do a full trace (-e
> > all) and check for what happens after things like
> >
> > kvm_exit: reason EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT rip 0x8168ed83 info 0 800000ef
> >
> > Jan
> >
>
> I captured the trace log (-e all) and uploaded it to the bug tracker. I was
> not
> yet able to get trace-cmd running for my old 2.6.32.12 kernel, as soon as I
> get
> it working, I'll send the -e all trace.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Erik

The splice command is not available before glibc-2.5 in userspace, but my old
system runs on glibc-2.3.6, so trace-cmd will never compile and run there, sorry
:-(

Best regards,

Erik
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