The culprit seems to be a soft lockup during shutdown because of the smp code. Adding nosmp command line option to the guest kernel does not cause this problem.
2009/10/30 Purna Chandar <purnachandar.m...@oneconvergence.com> > Can somebody out there please help me with this issue. > > Thanks, > PurnaChandar M > > 2009/10/26 Purna Chandar <purnachandar.m...@oneconvergence.com> > > Hi, >> I have compiled qemu 0.11.0 for x86 64 bit. I run Fedora Core 10 64 bit as >> my guest OS. >> Sometimes, when I shutdown the guest OS gracefully (using halt command), I >> see a kernel crash with a stack trace on guest OS window at * >> native_machine_shutdown()*. The RIP points to *native_smp_send_stop()*. >> This doesn't happen on every shutdown/reboot though. >> >> I did see this issue in older versions of qemu too(0.10.0 and 0.10.6). >> This could be a minor issue for most of you but I need to fix this because I >> run some automated scripts on the guest OS which reboots it. >> >> Does anybody has a fix or any other idea to get around this issue? >> >> Any bit of help on this would be really helpful. >> >> Thanks, >> PurnaChandar M >> > >
