On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 20:15 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 15.09.2010, at 20:07, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 19:51 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > >> On 15.09.2010, at 19:48, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote: > >> > >>> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 19:28 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > >>>> On 15.09.2010, at 18:53, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hi all: > >>>>> > >>>>> I'm Alec Joseph Rivera, from the Philippines and new on this list. > >>>>> Anyway, I'm trying to run Lotus Foundations on kvm and it just hangs on > >>>>> bootup. It stops right after: > >>>>> > >>>>> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor > >>>>> mode... Ok. > >>>>> > >>>>> There's no more output after that. My invocation line is: > >>>>> > >>>>> $ qemu-kvm -cpu host -m 1G -cdrom lfs.iso > >>>> > >>>> Your host is probably too new for this old guest. -cpu host directly passes through this host cpu's identifiers on which the guest might choke. Please try again without -cpu. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> Tried without -cpu, still hangs after the WP bit checking... > >>> > >>> $ qemu-kvm -m 1G -cdrom lfs.iso > >>> > >>> I was scanning the changelogs and read something about a > >>> -no-kernel-irqchip. The man page doesn't say anything about it but will > >>> try this one too.. > >> > >> Please try: > >> > >> $ qemu-kvm -m 1G -cdrom lfs.iso -serial stdio > >> > >> Then when it shows the bootloader, add "console=ttyS0" to the kernel command line. That should give all the debugging output necessary. > >> > >> > > > > Already done this one too (I've read it from your conversations with a > > Peter guy if I'm not mistaken). > > > > It just stops with no panic messages right after the mentioned checking > > part, which made me dig after timers (bogomips calibration should be > > next I believe). But I've gotten nowhere so far... > > > > Also, there's no -no-kernel-irqchip parameter, must have been a typo for > > -no-kvm-irqchip. > > > > -- begin kernel messages > >> Linux version 2.6.16.54-0.2.5-bigsmp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Mon Jan 21 08:29:51 EST 2008 > >> BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > >> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable) > >> BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) > >> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) > >> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fffd000 (usable) > >> BIOS-e820: 000000003fffd000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved) > >> BIOS-e820: 00000000fffbc000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) > >> 127MB HIGHMEM available. > >> 895MB LOWMEM available. > >> found SMP MP-table at 000f8990 > >> DMI 2.4 present. > >> Using APIC driver default > >> ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xb008 > >> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) > >> Processor #0 15:11 APIC version 20 > >> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) > >> Processor #1 15:11 APIC version 20 > >> Overriding APIC driver with bigsmp > >> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) > >> IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 > >> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) > >> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 5 global_irq 5 high level) > >> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) > >> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 10 global_irq 10 high level) > >> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 11 global_irq 11 high level) > >> Enabling APIC mode: Physflat. Using 1 I/O APICs > >> ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed00000 > >> Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information > >> Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bffbc000) > >> Built 1 zonelists > >> Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=32768 initrd=initrd root=/dev/ram BOOT_IMAGE=k12_1009 console=ttyS0 > >> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. > >> Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. > >> Initializing CPU#0 > >> PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes) > >> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 > >> Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) > >> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) > >> Memory: 1022272k/1048564k available (1671k kernel code, 25488k reserved, 890k data, 200k init, 131064k highmem) > >> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. > > Interesting. Mind to check if you find a the vmlinux binary for that kernel on the cd? Maybe it's hidden inside an rpm. Then you can use: > > $ qemu-kvm -s -cdrom ... > $ gdb <vmlinux> -ex 'target remote localhost:1234' > > (gdb) bt > > That should give us a clue on what's going wrong. > Sure will do this. I'll update the list later this morning. > Also, does the host's dmesg say anything? > Nothing on the host's dmesg too. I've checked {kernel,messages,syslog,everything}.log just to be safe but they're on the clear also... Meanwhile gotta sleep. Thanks for the help so far. > Alex > -- --- Follow me: http://twitter.com/agirivera Invite as a friend: http://www.facebook.com/agirivera -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html