Re: Fresh install of Windows XP hangs early in boot?

2008-07-30 Thread Chris Lalancette
Roland Dreier wrote: BTW I tried using if=ide to install Windows XP and got a blue screen during the installer. What are people doing to run XP in a kvm guest? Hm, your comment later on makes me think you tried this on AMD. If so, I have also run into a similar problem with Windows guests

Re: Fresh install of Windows XP hangs early in boot?

2008-07-30 Thread Roland Dreier
Hm, your comment later on makes me think you tried this on AMD. If so, I have also run into a similar problem with Windows guests under AMD. After installing WinDbg, it told me that it was a Paging Request in Non-Paged memory related to the Video memory area. Does yours look

Re: Fresh install of Windows XP hangs early in boot?

2008-07-29 Thread Roland Dreier
I experienced random hangs during the install (stracing kvm shows no system calls, and it appears to be spinning at 100% CPU), but eventually I got an install that ran all the way to completion. However, that image seems to hang every time shortly after boot starts. I see the Windows

Re: Fresh install of Windows XP hangs early in boot?

2008-07-29 Thread Roland Dreier
I built with debugging symbols, and this seems to be an issue with SCSI disk emulation. The traceback is: #0 0x7fc086d7dd10 in memcpy () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x004a319b in cpu_physical_memory_rw (addr=108661608, buf=0x7fff904ca190 \224['\206\210\030z\006I�A, len=4,

Re: Fresh install of Windows XP hangs early in boot?

2008-07-29 Thread Alberto Treviño
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 01:39:53 pm you wrote: I built with debugging symbols, and this seems to be an issue with SCSI disk emulation. The problem might be related to this bug report: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1895893group_id=180599atid=893831 Marcelo Tosatti

Re: Fresh install of Windows XP hangs early in boot?

2008-07-29 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:00:06PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: Known problem: http://www.nabble.com/LSI:-avoid-infinite-loops-p17116605.html Windows driver has scripts code which busy loops on main memory. Since that executes in vcpu context, the cpu won't ever get a chance to change

Re: Fresh install of Windows XP hangs early in boot?

2008-07-29 Thread Roland Dreier
BTW I tried using if=ide to install Windows XP and got a blue screen during the installer. What are people doing to run XP in a kvm guest? Are you using a recent version of kvm-userspace/kernel modules? Please save the blue screen and mail it to the list or fill a bug. Pretty

Re: Fresh install of Windows XP hangs early in boot?

2008-07-29 Thread Roland Dreier
BTW I tried using if=ide to install Windows XP and got a blue screen . during the installer. What are people doing to run XP in a kvm guest? Funnily enough installing XP SP2 with if=ide worked fine on an Intel host. I notice that I left off -std-vga on the working install too (I used it on

Re: Fresh install of Windows XP hangs early in boot?

2008-07-29 Thread Roland Dreier
Known problem: http://www.nabble.com/LSI:-avoid-infinite-loops-p17116605.html I tried this hack (and actually made the magic insns number 500), and doing an XP install I got lsi_scsi: error: Reselect with pending DMA do you have any feeling if this is because the script execution got