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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] qemu-timer: Fix timers for w32


From: Jan Kiszka
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] qemu-timer: Fix timers for w32
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:36:53 +0200
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On 2011-04-11 19:21, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Am 11.04.2011 09:36, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
>> On 04/10/2011 08:28 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
>>> Commit 68c23e5520e8286d79d96ab47c0ea722ceb75041 removed the
>>> multimedia timer, but this timer is needed for certain
>>> Linux kernels. Otherwise Linux boot stops with this error:
>>>
>>>      MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
>>>
>>> So the multimedia timer is added again here.
>>
>> Which distribution and Windows version is that?  Also, have they tried
>> the non-dynticks timer (win32)?
>>
>> Paolo
> 
> The bug was reported for a tinycore 3.5.1 guest (linux kernel 3.6.33-3).
> The iso image is available from
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/3.x/release/.
> QEMU was running on XP SP3.
> 
> Other Linux live CD-ROMs (e.g. FC14) were reported to show the same bug
> when run as guest.
> 
> APIC can be disabled (kernel parameter), without APIC there is no problem.
> 
> I see the same bug here with two XP hosts and also tried both timer
> variants
> of current QEMU (without a difference).
> 
> I don't get the bug when running on a Linux host using wine.

Passing no_timer_check to the Linux guest should work around the issue
as well. But this feature is only available since 2.6.20 (excluding
popular legacy 2.6.16 kernels).

Jan

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