Just upgraded from kvm-83 with evdev keyboard codes backoprted (yes, I
know, it's old) to 0.12.0rc2 plus the 2.6.32 source for kvm-kmod. This
on 64-bit Linux with an evdev Xorg.
Mouse and keyboard simply won't work in my existing XP VMs.
Installed a fresh XP3 straight from a slipstreamed ISO.
I have never got this to work reliably. Occasionally I can get as far as
making a debugger connection at boot-time, IIRC, but have never managed to
use the deugger at all. You always seem to end up in some
debugger-debuggee deadlock.
I suspect that the serial link simulation is imperfect
I post here because I experiment a lot of
problem to activate windows 2003 server
I have, similarly, never been able to activate Vista under KVM. After some
negotiation with the Windows activation backend, I receive an error
inviting me to call Microsoft to use telephone activation, which is
I'm on 32-bit Linux, kernel 2.6.27.7-smp. When I moved from kvm-83 to
kvm-87 plus kvm-kmod-devel-87, my Linux host VMs ran fine. But my XP0 host
simply ran too slowly to be useable at all, and my Windows 7 host wouldn't
boot -- just crashed and restarted early in the boot process.
Seeing the
Have you turned mouse acceleration off in your guest OS?
If not, then the mouse pointer is not guaranteed to move one distance unit
inside the guest for every distance unit it moves in real life. (Sorry, an
unscientific explanation, but I hope it suffices.) In fact, when you move
the mouse
Patchy video updates also seems to happen, though less obviously, with
'-vga std'.
For example, I started an XP guest with 'vga std' and then forgot about it
for some time. When I next looked at it, the screen saver had kicked in
(the jumping Windows logo) but only the bottom half of the logo
Running an XP0 guest under kvm-84 with Cirrus VGA, screen updates (notably
when copying regions of windows around during scrolling) are delayed or
lost, so that indivudual window contents are occasionally illegible. After
waiting a while, or moving the mouse around over the window, the updates
32-bit Vista (SP1) DHCP client doesn't acquire an IP address when using
'-net user'. (Userspace networking does work if IP assigned by hand.)
IPCONFIG /RENEW times out after a longish time.
Interestingly, DHCP worked fine after initial install of the Vista OS
(using E1000 card), but failed
The changelog from kvm-81 to kvm-82 says:
- much improved guest debugging (Jan Kiszka)
- both debugger in guest and debugger in host
I haven't tested it much, but I can confirm that debugging tricks I knew
didn't work with kvm-81 and before now work fine. Malware which wouldn't
even run now
Further to my earlier post, VGA remains broken with kvm-80 (exactly as
reported by Michael Tokarev), using XP0 guest and using X with vesa driver
under Linux guest.
I have:
1. Made sure I am using the kvm-80-built kernel drivers, as requested by
Avi to Michael.
2.Tried this patch:
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Just upgraded from -79 to -80. Host is Linux 2.6.24.5-smp; guests are XP0,
XP3 and Linux 2.4.x. Using the kernel drivers out of the new build.
Everything seems to work except for VGA updates. Whether via SDL or VNC,
the screen is laggy to the point of unusabilty. If you switch to the
console
Does this mean that hardware breakpoints set inside a guest (e.g. with a
debugger running within a Windows guest such as OllyDbg or WinDbg) will
finally work?
If so, then this is a Great Thing Indeed. Without hardware breakpoints,
numerous so-called software protected Windows apps -- notably
Michael Malone wrote:
When I run [kvm-76] it using the --std-vga parameter,
windows boots to just before it gets to the welcome
screen and hangs. The output shows a multitude of
kvm: get_dirty_pages returned -2
[...]
Glauber Costa replied:
It's a regression introduced in last version.
Using a recent QEMU tree (5001), I can start a Windows XP VM (FAT32-based)
in -snapshot mode, make changes, shutdown Windows (I have auto-power-off
disabled) and then issue 'commit all' at the monitor prompt. The changes
which I have made are then correctly stored back into the image file
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