Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Breakage with local APIC routing

[Jan Kiszka]

Juergen Lock wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:38:04PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Mohammed Gamal wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Mohammed Gamal<address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Jan Kiszka<address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> Mohammed Gamal wrote:
>>>>>> qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /dev/null -cdrom <path_to_ubuntu_iso_image>
>>>>>>
>>>>> I only have kubuntu-9.04-alternate-amd64.iso at hand ATM, and with that
>>>>> image I'm unable to reproduce. Will download and check standard ubuntu
>>>>> later today.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I was using qemu-kvm, but I assume that using -no-kvm would be
>>>>>> equivalent to using plain qemu, no?
>>>>> Generally yes, but not necessarily (e.g. the BIOSes are different). So
>>>>> it's better to check such issues also against "clean" qemu, specifically
>>>>> as we are on qemu-devel here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Just tested this now on a vanilla qemu, I am still able to reproduce
>>>> the same issue.
>>>>
>>> This bug might be related to the same problem
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/379000
>> I think at least those issues should be solved with recent qemu and
>> bioses. Note that this report refers to a fairly old qemu version
>> (0.10.0-derived).
> 
> Btw I had reported the same symptom as in that ubuntu ticket for FreeBSD 8
> hosts both with 0.10.6 and 0.11.0rc1 before:
>       http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-08/msg00396.html
> As mentioned in that post I was able to work around the issue by passig
> the linux guest kernels `no_timer_check' after which they seemed to boot up
> just fine, so I suspect in that case its not actually an apic routing
> problem but just guest timer irqs arriving late/irregularly which cause
> the guest kernel timer checks to time out and fail.

Does this happen with git head and its corresponding bios, too? I cannot
imagine that the FreeBSD platform is so irregularly generating timer
events for qemu that Linux gets unhappy during this test loop (I think
to remember it needs 3 out of 10 ticks or so to be satisfied).

Jan

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