64bit Windows guests on Intel Xeon E5520

2010-02-10 Thread Matteo Ghezzi
Hi, i got a new Xeon E5520 (4 cores, 8 threads), and I'm testing some Windows guests. My configuration is as follows: - Arch Linux - Kernel 2.6.32.7 - Qemu-Kvm 0.12.2 1st test: identify the correct line for smp in my case, I tried with: -smp 8,cores=4,threads=8 in this way only Windows 2003

Re: KVM problems with Xeon L5530

2010-02-09 Thread Matteo Ghezzi
2010/2/7 Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com That is basically the same error. The guest runs the vga vios and hangs.  Please try with a production processor. Working fine with a retail E5520. Thanks for your help. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a

Re: KVM problems with Xeon L5530

2010-01-28 Thread Matteo Ghezzi
2010/1/28 Brian Jackson i...@theiggy.com: What version of qemu-kvm? qemu-kvm 0.12.2-1 There was a similar thread a while back, maybe you could try some of the suggestions and/or info gathering tips from it. tried every suggestion form that thread... contacted the original poster and narrowed

Re: KVM problems with Xeon L5530

2010-01-28 Thread Matteo Ghezzi
Upgraded to 2.6.33-rc5, same qemu-kvm version, same hardware. The Vnc screen is still black and the virtual machine, but now I don't have anymore messages in the logs but directly at standard output: KVM internal error. Suberror: 2 extra data[0]: 8010 extra data[1]: 8b0d rax

KVM problems with Xeon L5530

2010-01-27 Thread Matteo Ghezzi
Hi! I'm a long time KVM user, but I've encountered a problem that I couldn't solve. I've switched my good old Core2 Quad with gentoo (2.6.27 kernel) for a Dual Xeon L5530 with Arch (2.6.32 kernel). I've tried starting the old vmachines on the new hardware but if I enable kvm acceleration in qemu