Il 18/10/2012 17:17, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto:
> On 10/18/12 10:12, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 03:38:37AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>>> I have no idea why the UEFI-booted kernel tries to initialize the
>>> display with Int10h, since that is a (VGA) BIOS interrupt.
>> Looks like google knows something about it. Search for "INT 10" here:
>> http://www.uefi.org/events/UEFI-Plugfest-WindowsBootEnvironment.pdf
>>
>> * VGA support still requires INT 10h support
>>  * Windows Server 2008 supports headless systems with no VGA
> 
> (The hang reproduces with "-vga none" as well.)
> 
> Two screenshots linked (sorry, found no easy way to extract text from
> the call stack window):
> - call stack from the (futile) display initialization loop [1], with
> "-vga cirrus",
> - call stack during the "hang" [2]. The call stack looks the same with
> "-vga cirrus" and "-vga none". Appears to be consistent with the kvm ftrace.

Is it really a hang?  I haven't looked at the kvm ftrace, but this looks
more like Windows is running headless.

Perhaps you can install Windows under DUET (with DUET in a USB flash
drive), configure remote desktop, then boot it again under OVMF, and try
to connect to the Windows remote desktop.

More info on DUET: http://www.rodsbooks.com/bios2uefi/

Paolo

> I'll try to follow the guest with finer granularity before the idle
> loop. (Single stepping seems a bit too ambitious.)
> 
> Thanks!
> Laszlo
> 
> [1]
> http://people.redhat.com/~lersek/ovmf_win2k8r2sp1_debug/during-display-init.png
> [2] http://people.redhat.com/~lersek/ovmf_win2k8r2sp1_debug/hang.png
> 


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