Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-07-03 Thread Nikola Ciprich
So we've finally confirmed, that on cleanly installed guest, (or previously created image of w2k8) we can't reproduce the problem, only with this one particular image. I'd not worry about it anymore, I'll just have this one reinstalled. thanks for Your time and sorry for delays nik On Wed, Jun

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-06-14 Thread Nikola Ciprich
Hello Avi, sorry, I've been off for vacation for few days now. I think even clean preinstalled guest worked properly, only the one particular production machine didn't. I'll confirm during this week. n. Does installing the same guest software into a new image work? -- error compiling

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-06-09 Thread Avi Kivity
On 05/27/2011 12:05 PM, Nikola Ciprich wrote: Hello Avi, Try appending ,cache=none to the -drive parameter? nope, unfortunately same result :( n. Does installing the same guest software into a new image work? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-27 Thread Avi Kivity
On 05/26/2011 03:56 PM, Nikola Ciprich wrote: Should be more like that one with correct image path: huh, now I got a bit lost :) I tried running both: /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -M pc-0.13 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name vmtst04 -uuid 1f8328b8-8849-11e0-91e9-00259009d78c

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-27 Thread Nikola Ciprich
Hello Avi, Try appending ,cache=none to the -drive parameter? nope, unfortunately same result :( n. Maybe we have a regression with writethrough block devices (a bad idea anyway). -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. --

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:59:10AM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: Hello, after I tried updating our production host to 0.14.0 or 0.14.1, our windows terminal server stopped booting. Here's BSOD screen: http://nik.lbox.cz/public/wincrash.png reverting to 0.13.5 fixes the problem. I can't

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Nikola Ciprich
Hello Gleb! What is you command line? currently it's: /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc-0.13 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name vmwts02 -uuid 1e501300-dc48-11df-a690-00304834195b -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:20:56PM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: You can make a copy from your production image, install 0.14 version in different place from 0.13 and experiment. yup, I think I've tried it also with exact copy and wasn't able to reproduce it, but I'll try it again and report

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Nikola Ciprich
OK, I tried copying the whole image to my test box running 0.14.0 again and it crashes with exactly the same BSOD! So now I have the test environment to play with... What should I check/try now? n. PS: I'm not sure what You mean by permissions, but I'm using LVM partitions and qemu-kvm is

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 01:50:35PM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: OK, I tried copying the whole image to my test box running 0.14.0 again and it crashes with exactly the same BSOD! So now I have the test environment to play with... What should I check/try now? n. PS: I'm not sure what You

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Nikola Ciprich
This BSOD usually indicates that Windows can't write to the boot disk. This is usually happens if qemu has no permission to write to the image file. But if you are starting qemu as a root this is probably is not the OK, I see. case. So what is your 0.14 command line? here it goes:

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:03:57PM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: This BSOD usually indicates that Windows can't write to the boot disk. This is usually happens if qemu has no permission to write to the image file. But if you are starting qemu as a root this is probably is not the OK, I see.

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Nikola Ciprich
May be libvirt does something funny with selinux. it shouldn't, I don't have selinux enabled in host kernel at all.. Try to run with -M pc-0.13. tried now, same result... -- Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:30:00PM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: May be libvirt does something funny with selinux. it shouldn't, I don't have selinux enabled in host kernel at all.. Try to run with -M pc-0.13. tried now, same result... Hmm. And what if you start qemu directly (without

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Nikola Ciprich
Hmm. And what if you start qemu directly (without using libvirt) with 0.13 command line? /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -M pc-0.13 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -boot c -drive file=/dev/vgshared/vmtst04-1,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -vnc

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:46:30PM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: Hmm. And what if you start qemu directly (without using libvirt) with 0.13 command line? /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -M pc-0.13 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -boot c -drive file=/dev/vgshared/vmtst04-1,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw -device

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Nikola Ciprich
Should be more like that one with correct image path: huh, now I got a bit lost :) I tried running both: /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -M pc-0.13 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name vmtst04 -uuid 1f8328b8-8849-11e0-91e9-00259009d78c -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=char

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:56:40PM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: Should be more like that one with correct image path: huh, now I got a bit lost :) I tried running both: /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -M pc-0.13 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name vmtst04 -uuid

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Nikola Ciprich
No, try to run the one I gave you. Just replace the image file path. I do no have much hope it will work though, but worth trying. OK, I tried, I just had to remove the monitor device. Still, it fails the same way... n. -- Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 03:15:19PM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: No, try to run the one I gave you. Just replace the image file path. I do no have much hope it will work though, but worth trying. OK, I tried, I just had to remove the monitor device. Still, it fails the same way... According

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Nikola Ciprich
According to this: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/embeddedwindowscomponents/thread/09aae527-ff6d-4003-9e59-962d73d409ed such bsod happens because Windows can't access boot device. Your boot device is IDE. Nothing changed in this area from 13 to 14. Are you sure your image was

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 03:32:43PM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: According to this: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/embeddedwindowscomponents/thread/09aae527-ff6d-4003-9e59-962d73d409ed such bsod happens because Windows can't access boot device. Your boot device is IDE.

Re: qemu-kvm-0.14.x regression - windows 2K8 R2 stopped booting

2011-05-26 Thread Nikola Ciprich
In this case I am very puzzled :) well, so am I :) but at least, I now know there seems to be problem with disk access. I'll ask some of our windows guys to try some failsave mode or something and find out what is going on... I'll report when I know something. thanks for Your help! n. --