KVM entry failed, hardware error

2012-06-03 Thread Johannes Bauer
Hi list, when trying to install Windows7 in a qemu-kvm 1.0.1 installation on Gentoo on my host running Linux joequad 3.3.7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 3 12:05:59 CEST 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux with a host CPU of processor : 0 vendor_id

Re: KVM entry failed, hardware error

2012-06-03 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 03.06.2012 14:33, Avi Kivity wrote: when trying to install Windows7 in a qemu-kvm 1.0.1 installation on Gentoo on my host running Is that a 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7? 64 bit. But I've also (in despair) tried installing 32 Bit Windows 7, with the exact same effect. EAX=0010

Re: KVM entry failed, hardware error

2012-06-03 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 03.06.2012 14:33, Avi Kivity wrote: You can run vmxcap [1] and see. Ah, I forgot to attach the output of vmxcap, which might be of interest. First the host where it does not work: pin-based controls External interrupt exiting yes NMI exiting

Re: KVM entry failed, hardware error

2012-06-03 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 03.06.2012 15:43, Avi Kivity wrote: On 06/03/2012 04:01 PM, Johannes Bauer wrote: On 03.06.2012 14:33, Avi Kivity wrote: when trying to install Windows7 in a qemu-kvm 1.0.1 installation on Gentoo on my host running Is that a 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7? 64 bit. But I've also (in despair

Re: KVM entry failed, hardware error

2012-06-04 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 04.06.2012 10:53, Gleb Natapov wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 06:25:33PM +0200, Johannes Bauer wrote: Therefore, I've uploaded the compressed trace.dat file, so you can maybe have a look why the report tool barfs and interpret it correctly. I can't figure it out. The trace is here: http

Re: KVM entry failed, hardware error

2012-06-04 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 04.06.2012 20:28, Johannes Bauer wrote: What is your command line? bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -enable-kvm -net nic -net user,smb=Share,restrict=on -drive media=disk,file=Windows7_x32.qcow2,if=virtio -m 2048 -smp 1 -nographic Just noticed that the output I just provided

Re: KVM entry failed, hardware error

2012-06-06 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 06.06.2012 17:53, Avi Kivity wrote: # rmmod kvm_intel # modprobe kvm_intel emulate_invalid_guest_state=1 Warning: experimental code. Tried it out -- I don't get the error anymore, but qemu just hangs on boot with 100% CPU. :-( Please retry with

Re: KVM entry failed, hardware error

2012-06-06 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 05.06.2012 15:59, David Ahern wrote: You need to install the plugins for trace-cmd: make install_plugins you could also try setting: export TRACE_CMD_PLUGIN_DIR=/path/to/plugins Aha, with that I get more messages: trace-cmd: No such file or directory cound not load plugin

Re: KVM entry failed, hardware error

2012-06-07 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 07.06.2012 09:12, Avi Kivity wrote: add -monitor stdio to the command line and then: (qemu) info registers (qemu) x/20i 0xcsbase + $eip Run info registers a few times and note whether eip changes or not. It does not. Here's where it hangs: (qemu) info registers EAX=23de

Re: KVM entry failed, hardware error

2012-06-07 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 07.06.2012 16:52, Avi Kivity wrote: Please try the big-real-mode branch again. It contains emulation for the missing instruction, plus a bunch of tweaks which allowed it to boot Fedora 17 smp with emulate_invalid_guest_state=1. Progress! So now I'm on Linux joequad

Re: KVM entry failed, hardware error

2012-06-07 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 07.06.2012 19:25, Avi Kivity wrote: Note that c does NOT cause the VM to resume, only info registers does. dmesg shows nothing out of the ordinary. I'm guessing this is 5152902652. Try bumping 'unsigned count = 130' (by adding zeros at the end, don't bother with anything less). If you

Re: KVM entry failed, hardware error

2012-06-07 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 07.06.2012 19:25, Avi Kivity wrote: Note that c does NOT cause the VM to resume, only info registers does. dmesg shows nothing out of the ordinary. I'm guessing this is 5152902652. Try bumping 'unsigned count = 130' (by adding zeros at the end, don't bother with anything less). If you

Re: KVM entry failed, hardware error

2012-06-07 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 07.06.2012 21:46, Johannes Bauer wrote: In an infinite loop. Which looks to be as if it is continuously exiting after just one iteration (count at leave is 1299). Maybe I'll fiddle some more and am able to provide some insight (probably you already know what's going on, but it won't hurt I