On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 15:21 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > My XP VM was working OK, and then started crashing shortly after it > > logged me in. There were no obvious changes at the time. I built the > > latest qemu-kvm, but the problem persists. > > > > I am running 32 bit XP on Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz (8 cores > > total), Debian GNU/Linux mostly Lenny (amd64), but with some more recent > > stuff. In particular, the kernel is 2.6.30-8 and I pulled in the > > kernel-headers package to match before building kvm. However, libc6 and > > libc6-dev are at Lenny's 2.7-18 version. > > Libc is basically irrelevant here. What matters are the host kernel > and kvm version. BTW, I do not have libvirt installed. > > > $ ./XP.sh > > ++ sudo vdeq bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -net > > nic,vlan=1,macaddr=52:54:a0:12:01:00 -net > > vde,vlan=1,sock=/var/run/vde2/tap0.ctl -boot c -vga std -hda > > /dev/turtle/XP01 -soundhw es1370 -localtime -m 1G -smp 2 > > arg ,vlan=1,sock=/var/run/vde2/tap0.ctl > > TUNGETIFF ioctl() failed: Invalid argument > > TUNSETOFFLOAD ioctl() failed: Bad address Are the previous 2 messages significant? Just noise from vdeq? ... > > The VM starts; I see the initial XP screen with the 4 colors; I see the > > background I get when I log in (it logs me in directly without prompt); > > and then (pretty fast) I get a blue screen. The stop code is 0x8E, and > > the text says to check disk space and BIOS options. > > What's the bios files your kvm uses? How do I find out? > Are they by a change > from some old qemu install? > > Does kvm deb from http://www.corpit.ru/debian/tls/kvm/ expose the same > issue? I'll try the next time I'm at the machine (I've also had problems with remote use). > > > -no-kvm-irqchip and -no-kvm-pit make no difference. > > > > With -no-kvm I get stop code 0x24 and a suggestion to disable > > anti-virus, defragmentation, and backup software. This is the one > > obvious change between the Lenny kvm and the one I just built; with > > lenny kvm (kvm 72+dfsg-5~lenny3) running with -no-kvm simply seemed to > > hang forever (I think I waited at least 15 minutes). > > > > This disk turtle/XP01 is a read-write snapshot on turtle/XP00. The > > snapshot looks healthy, with about 50% allocated to the snapshot. The > > snapshot volume is 10G and the original is 50G. > > > > The VM starts fine if I point it to XP00 instead of XP01. > > Well, that's telling, isn't it? If you change disk image and > it works, the problem should be in the disk image... Maybe. As I said, it was working, and I get different errors with --no-kvm.
Is there a way I can mount the individual partitions on XP01 to get a look at them? It took a lot of time to create this, so I'm really hoping I can salvage it. > > > > > P.S. What are the different files in my kvm/bin directory? > > There's no kvm/bin directory in the source tarball of qemu-kvm-0.11.0. I'm referring to the installation directories: /usr/local/kvm/bin$ ls qemu-img qemu-io qemu-nbd qemu-system-x86_64 Ross -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
