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[Qemu-devel] Re: Problem with virtio
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Frans de Boer |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: Problem with virtio |
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Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:22:42 +0200 |
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On 09/20/2010 07:46 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:13:16PM +0200, Frans de Boer wrote:
>
>> On 09/19/2010 05:53 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:13:12PM +0200, Frans de Boer wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 09/17/2010 10:10 AM, Frans de Boer wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 09/17/2010 01:40 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:49:51 +0200
>> Frans de Boer <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear reader,
>>
>> Using qemu-kvm-0.13-rc1 and having the boot partition as
>> if=virtio,
>> causes the attached blue screen when booting Windows XP
>> SP3.
>> Changing the interface to ide (if=ide) and the system
>> boots normal.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Do you have the virtio drivers installed?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, everything is working fine when I use the 0.12.5 release.
>> Before you ask, I am using the git repository too. Same effect.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> No suggestions form anyone?
>> Again, any compile combination is working under 0.12.5. Starting with
>> 0.13-rc0/1 the virtio option for the boot disk is not working
>> anymore.
>>
>> Frans.
>>
>>
>> Could you try bisecting please?
>> git bisect start v0.13.0-rc0 v0.12.0
>>
>> will start the bisect process, then you build, test and run
>> git bisect good/git bisect bad as appropriate to get the
>> new version.
>>
>>
>>
>> Following your advice, I noticed that the system could not boot when I use
>> the
>> guest virtio driver. I then switch back to as far as version 10.0 with the
>> same bad result. I then remembered that in the past I used the '.raw' format.
>> Since I am using the qcow2 format (better performance), I never tried
>> if=virtio
>> for the disk before until I use the 0.13.0-rc1 version. I tried the release
>> tar
>> file of 0.12.5 and this time with the guest virtio driver, with the same bad
>> result.
>> Maybe it is the file format? Maybe the virtio disk driver? I have taken the
>> virtio drivers from the KVM website.
>>
>> Frans.
>>
> I got confused, sorry. Let's try to enumerate what works and what does not.
> Could you tell us which of the following combinations you tried
> and with what result (works/doesn't)?
>
> - virtio + raw + 0.12
> - virtio + qcow2 + 0.12
> - ide + qcow2 + 0.12
>
> - virtio + raw + 0.13
> - virtio + qcow2 + 0.13
> - ide + qcow2 + 0.13
>
> Thanks!
>
>
I used 0.12.5 (git and tarball) and the 0.13-rc1 (git and tarball)
- virtio + raw + 0.12 ok
- virtio + qcow2 + 0.12 fail!
- ide + qcow2 + 0.12 ok
- virtio + raw + 0.13 fail!
- virtio + qcow2 + 0.13 fail!
- ide + qcow2 + 0.13 ok
Frans.
- [Qemu-devel] Problem with virtio, Frans de Boer, 2010/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Problem with virtio, Luiz Capitulino, 2010/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Problem with virtio, Frans de Boer, 2010/09/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Problem with virtio, Frans de Boer, 2010/09/18
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Problem with virtio, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2010/09/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Problem with virtio, Frans de Boer, 2010/09/19
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: Problem with virtio, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2010/09/20
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Problem with virtio,
Frans de Boer <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Problem with virtio, Vadim Rozenfeld, 2010/09/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Problem with virtio, Frans de Boer, 2010/09/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Problem with virtio, Frans de Boer, 2010/09/25
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: Problem with virtio, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2010/09/26
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Problem with virtio, Frans de Boer, 2010/09/26