On 5/8/07, Nakajima, Jun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
> > Jorge Lucángeli Obes wrote:
> >> I have also tried using Windows Vista with kvm. Until now, I had (of
> >> course) the same ACPI problem as everybody. I had decided to compile
> >> the new BIOS by hand. Imagine my suprise when I saw the third entry
> >> in the above list =). I rushed to get my Vista Ultimate installation
> >> DVD. The install went great, I even managed to create a user.
> >> However, I did not get past this. After creating my user, the guest
> >> reboots (or more precisely, it shuts down since I'm running
> >> 'no-reboot') and when I start it again, it stops with what I believe
> >> is a real mode error:
> >>
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stuff/qemu$ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 vista.img -m 512
> >> -no-reboot -localtime -no-rtc exception 13 (0)
> >> rax 0000000060000010 rbx 0000000000004200 rcx 00000000000000ff rdx
> >> 0000000000000001 rsi 0000000000000180 rdi 0000000000007000 rsp
> >> 0000000000001e60 rbp 0000000000001e98 r8  0000000000000000 r9
> >> 0000000000000000 r10 0000000000000000 r11 0000000000000000 r12
> >> 0000000000000000 r13 0000000000000000 r14 0000000000000000 r15
> >> 0000000000000000 rip 0000000000009a12 rflags 00033006
> >> cs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> >> ds 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> >> es 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> >> ss 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> >> fs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> >> gs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> >> tr 0000 (20850000/00002088 p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type b l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> >> ldt 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type 2 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> >> gdt bb68/27 idt 0/3ff
> >> cr0 60000010 cr2 0 cr3 0 cr4 0 cr8 0 efer 0
> >> Aborted
> >>
> >> Running with 'no-kvm' manages to solve this but I don't get to the
> >> login screen. The guest quits unexpectedly while on the Vista
> >> "bootsplash". It's a 32-bit Vista Ultimate guest on the same 64-bit
> >> Xubuntu Feisty host, kernel 2.6.20.3 Ubuntu branch, and kvm-22
> >> (modules and userspace).
> >>
> >> Any ideas? Have you guys done anything special to get Vista running?
> >> What can I do to find out what's going on?
> >>
> >
> > Well, all I did was to apply a one-line patch from Qing He to the bios
> > ROM.  I haven't even tried Vista myself :)  Maybe Qing can comment?
> >
> > It does look like a real mode problem; I'll update the dump to show
> > more information (e.g. the code at the point of failure).
>
> It's also possible that Vista did HLT (because we've got #GP) by finding some 
> feature missing. Dumping the instruction should be very helpful.
>
> >
> > Do you get anything in dmesg when the problem occurs?

I had some time on my hands lately and tried to debug this a little. I
found that there's actually something showing in dmesg:

[ 3872.221039] emulation failed but !mmio_needed? rip 9a12 0f 09 66 25

Does that help? I'm running kvm-24 now, but the exception still
happens. I've been looking through x86_emulate.c and kvmctl.c trying
to print more information but with no success yet.

Cheers,
Jorge

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