On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:23:02PM +0100, John Lagrue
wrote:> I had an installation of WinXP that took a long time to install but
> finally had running fairly well runing from a commandline call to
> qemu-kvm (though I never have got the hang of how the network the
> damned thing!)
>
> But then, after a recent update, qemu-kvm would crash every time I
> tried to run it. OK I thought, there''s something new, so I tried
to
> create a new VM.
>
> I still can''t get anything useful to build with WinXP from
> virt-manager, but did manage to get it to instal by running qemu-kvm
> from the command line again. And it works fine. Right up to the moment
> I install XP SP 2.
>
> After that, all I get is this:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> # qemu-kvm -localtime -no-acpi -m 512 CC3_1
> Could not configure ''/dev/rtc'' to have a 1024 Hz timer.
This is not a fatal
> error, but for better emulation accuracy either use a 2.6 host Linux kernel
or
> type ''echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq'' as
root.
> unhandled vm exit: 0x3f60101
> rax 00000000000000b5 rbx 00000000000000b5 rcx 0000000000000000 rdx
> 000000008053f118
> rsi 0000000080551920 rdi 0000000000000000 rsp 00000000804d7000 rbp
> 000000008053f0a0
> r8 0000000000000000 r9 0000000000000000 r10 0000000000000000 r11
> 0000000000000000
> r12 0000000000000000 r13 0000000000000000 r14 0000000000000000 r15
> 0000000000000000
> rip 000000008053f620 rflags 00000002
> cs 0008 (00000000/ffffffff p 1 dpl 0 db 1 s 1 type b l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> ds 0023 (00000000/ffffffff p 1 dpl 3 db 1 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 1 avl 0)
> es 0023 (00000000/ffffffff p 1 dpl 3 db 1 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 1 avl 0)
> ss 0010 (00000000/ffffffff p 1 dpl 0 db 1 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 1 avl 0)
> fs 0030 (ffdff000/00001fff p 1 dpl 0 db 1 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 1 avl 0)
> gs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> tr 0028 (80042000/000020ab p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type 9 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> ldt 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 0 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type 0 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> gdt 8003f000/3ff
> idt 8003f400/7ff
> cr0 8001003d cr2 0 cr3 a4a000 cr4 20 cr8 0 efer 0
> Aborted
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I''ve reinstalled this three times, and it happens every time. Does
> this mean anything to anyone?
Not a lot, but please file a bugzilla ticket against KVM since various
knowledgable people monitor the BZ tickets.
Dan.
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