> The happy theme of today's kvm is the significant performance > improvements, brought to you by a growing team of developers. I've > clocked kbuild at within 25% of native. This release also introduces > support for 32-bit Windows Vista. > > Changes from kvm-21: > - Significant performance improvements (Anthony Liguori, Eddie Dong, > Qing He, me) > - Fix longstanding bug: time runs at double speed on x86_64 Linux (Qing He) > - Windows Vista 32-bit support (Qing He, Jun Nakajima) > - Support for kvm abi 10 modules > - Minor updates
Hi Avi, hi all, Let me start by congratulating you on the amazing work you are doing with kvm. I've been using a 32-bit Windows XP guest on a 64-bit Xubuntu Feisty host for quite some time now with no glitches at all and extremely good performance. I have also tried using Windows Vista with kvm. Until now, I had (of course) the same ACPI problem as everybody. I had decided to compile the new BIOS by hand. Imagine my suprise when I saw the third entry in the above list =). I rushed to get my Vista Ultimate installation DVD. The install went great, I even managed to create a user. However, I did not get past this. After creating my user, the guest reboots (or more precisely, it shuts down since I'm running 'no-reboot') and when I start it again, it stops with what I believe is a real mode error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stuff/qemu$ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 vista.img -m 512 -no-reboot -localtime -no-rtc exception 13 (0) rax 0000000060000010 rbx 0000000000004200 rcx 00000000000000ff rdx 0000000000000001 rsi 0000000000000180 rdi 0000000000007000 rsp 0000000000001e60 rbp 0000000000001e98 r8 0000000000000000 r9 0000000000000000 r10 0000000000000000 r11 0000000000000000 r12 0000000000000000 r13 0000000000000000 r14 0000000000000000 r15 0000000000000000 rip 0000000000009a12 rflags 00033006 cs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) ds 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) es 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) ss 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) fs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) gs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) tr 0000 (20850000/00002088 p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type b l 0 g 0 avl 0) ldt 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type 2 l 0 g 0 avl 0) gdt bb68/27 idt 0/3ff cr0 60000010 cr2 0 cr3 0 cr4 0 cr8 0 efer 0 Aborted Running with 'no-kvm' manages to solve this but I don't get to the login screen. The guest quits unexpectedly while on the Vista "bootsplash". It's a 32-bit Vista Ultimate guest on the same 64-bit Xubuntu Feisty host, kernel 2.6.20.3 Ubuntu branch, and kvm-22 (modules and userspace). Any ideas? Have you guys done anything special to get Vista running? What can I do to find out what's going on? Yours, Jorge ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
