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 <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. >> > 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.
