On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 04:15:10AM +0000, Matthew Anderson wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion but so far it hasn't made any difference.
>
> I thought I may be an issue with the mainline kernel I was using so I changed
> over to Ubuntu 12.10 and QEMU 1.2.0. Stability is slightly better but I still
> get 2-3 VM's a day out of about 120 experiencing this bug in the exact same
> way as before. Time in the guest simply stop's ticking over and when you
> attempt to interact with the VM the lost ticks get replayed as fast as
> possible. Because of the time being out practically nothing works as it
> breaks crypto support (as well as practically everything else).
>
> In addition to what I posted previously I've tried -
> Setting the CPU type to host, qemu64 and kvm64
> Setting the machine type to 0.14, 0.15, 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 (plus 1.3 and 1.4
> from previous testing)
> With and without the HPET timer using combinations of the above
>
> The settings I'm using work fine on the Centos 6.3 (2.6.32) kernel and QEMU
> 1.4.0. I've only had this problem since upgrading the kernel which is the
> only evidence I have of it being a kernel/KVM bug. I'm incredibly desparate
> for any solution or advice that may lead to getting this problem sorted,I'm
> getting a tyrade of angry phone called every morning that's making me want to
> go postal.
>
Is this happening to all VMs on the same machine simultaneously?
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Gleb.
