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 <fr...@fransdb.nl> 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.
