Re: Restoring saved guest causes guest to reboot

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On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:35:27AM +0200, Markus Schade wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2011, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 09:11:44AM +0200, Markus Schade wrote:
>>> after upgrading the kernel from 2.6.37.6 to 2.6.38.X the guest domain
>>> reboots immediately after restore from a saved state. The OS of the guest is not
>>> a factor as it is the same for Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.), FreeBSD
>>> and Windows.
>>>
>>> While save and restore seems to work on a suspended guest. But once the guest
>>> is resumed, the domain reboots. Last working kernel version is 2.6.37.6.
>>>
>>> I can confirm this behaviour with qemu-kvm 0.13.0 to latest 0.14.1
>>> and vanilla kernels up to 2.6.39.
>>>
>>> This also won't work on unmodified stock installs of Ubuntu 11.04 or
>>> Fedora 15.
>>>
>>> Please let me know, if you need further information or testing.
>>
>> What hardware does your host run on?
>
> The main target systems are Intel Core i7 (920 to 950) on a MSI X58 Pro
> mainboard with 24GB RAM and an Adaptec 5405 RAID controller with 3 disks
> in a RAID-5 configuration. The controller is not a factor (happens also
> with MD RAID).
>
> To rule out an issue with this specific mainboard and CPU, i have also
> check this (only with F15) on a Core i5 and and Asus P55 mainboard.
>
> I could try to also confirm this on AMD X2, but it will take me a little
> to setup a machine.

Your description points to some problem in the kernel. Would be good if
you could try the same on your AMD X2 to find out if the problem is in
generic kvm code or in the vmx part.

	Joerg

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