Michael Tokarev wrote: > tags 680719 + moreinfo unreproducible > thanks > > On 08.07.2012 11:57, Jamie Heilman wrote: > > Package: qemu-kvm > > Version: 1.1~z0+dfsg-1 > > > > 1.1.0+dfsg-1 is still affected; but the problem hit unstable with > > 1.1~z0+dfsg-1. This is essentially upstream bug 1021649. Which has > > evidently been closed as Invalid due to it being firmware related... > > but it's not at all clear to me what that really means. I assume the > > firmware they're talking about is is seabios, but I'm not positive. > > (I'm using the seabios 1.7.0-1 package if it matters.) > > There, the firmware is seabios from fedora, patched. In Debian we > use the same seabios as qemu ships. > > > The problem I'm facing is that my VMs that used -nodefaults -nographic > > -device isa-serial,chardev=char0 -chardev pty,id=char0 (or -display > > none instead of -nographic which I believe results in the same > > topology anyway) no longer boot. They just hang indefinately. If I > > fiddle with the chardev backend, I can indeed make them boot after a > > key press, but that's not ideal, and I can't get them to start booting > > with the pty backend no matter what I try. > > Sigh. > > You need to provide ways to reproduce this.
I've been trying to figure that out, I didn't give an explicit detail becuase I haven't been able to isolate the minimal case yet, and I was watching 1021649 thinking upstream was on top of it already... but then all those symptoms turned out to be something else I guess. What I know for sure: The guest is a Debian unstable image on an lvm volume utilising grub2 bootloader running a custom kernel without vga console support (though that likely doesn't matter given it never gets that far). Invoked thusly: kvm -name jimmy -m 1024 -nodefaults -nographic \ -device isa-serial,chardev=char0 \ -chardev pty,id=char0 \ -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=blk0,bootindex=0 \ -drive id=blk0,file=/dev/mapper/S-jimmy,if=none,cache=none \ -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 \ -netdev tap,id=net0,ifname=jimmy,script=no,downscript=no Changing -nographic to -display none has the same result. Changing -chardev pty,id=char0 to -chardev stdio,id=char0 results in things hanging until a key is pressed. Removing the network options has no effect, changing memory size has no effect. -- Jamie Heilman http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org