There might be multiple issues present and I'm having difficulty reliably doing any kind of regression testing here, but I think this patch helps fix at least one of the issues I was seeing that occurs specifically during early boot. It may fix other hangs.
** Patch added: "sata.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1769189/+attachment/5146730/+files/sata.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1769189 Title: Issue with qemu 2.12.0 + SATA Status in QEMU: New Bug description: [EDIT: I first thought that OVMF was the issue, but it turns out to be SATA] I had a Windows 10 VM running perfectly fine with a SATA drive, since I upgraded to qemu 2.12, the guests hangs for a couple of minutes, works for a few seconds, and hangs again, etc. By "hang" I mean it doesn't freeze, but it looks like it's waiting on IO or something, I can move the mouse but everything needing disk access is unresponsive. What doesn't work: qemu 2.12 with SATA What works: using VirIO-SCSI with qemu 2.12 or downgrading qemu to 2.11.1 and keep using SATA. Platform is arch linux 4.16.7 on skylake and Haswell, I have attached the vm xml file. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1769189/+subscriptions
