I've been merrily running a Windows Server 2003 with Exchange vm under an older version of KVM (0.12.5) under Debian 6 (Squeeze), for over a year. I recently built a new kvm server with Debian Wheezy which comes with KVM 1.1.2 and when I moved this guest over, I immediately started getting BSODs (0x0000007). I disabled virtio block driver and then attempted to upgrade to the latest with no luck. Right now I have it running under IDE, and because the new server is pretty spunky, I don't see any performance issues, but I have another Server 2003 vm that is a file server to move over and I'm concerned that I start getting a few IDE emulated guests and things will start to get ugly. Oddly enough, I have a Server 2012 (x64) running on virtio that moved over without a hitch, so this is clearly a Server 2003 issue. The most obvious solution at the moment is to downgrade to Debian Squeeze, and that's the course I may take for the time being, but that's not much of a long term solution. I've done some research and this does seem to be an issue with Windows XP/Server 2003 guests but clearly the issue here is not just virtio drivers, but interaction between the drivers and a newer version of kvm. Does anybody have any thoughts or workarounds? -- Aaron Clausen mightymartianca@xxxxxxxxx -- 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
