On 7 October 2010 11:05, Jes Sorensen <639...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Just to be sure, you are not using the virtio-blk driver for Windows > here? > > I have seen similar crashes with the older version of virtio-blk when used on > recent versions of KVM. > > -- > DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL booting WIndows XP with Synaptics driver > installed > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/639651 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- > devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. > > Status in QEMU: New > Status in Debian GNU/Linux: New > > Bug description: > Positng the issue here since I did not get any reply on the ML. > > I was trying to update some windows XP (SP3) images in kvm. > > It worked fine several times but last time I added mass storage > drivers to sysprep and now on the second boot after reseal (the first > is mini-setup) I get a BSOD with message > DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. > > It turns out that the error is unrelated to storage drivers. It is triggered > by Synaptics driver installing for the PS2 mouse in kvm (which does not > happen in VirtualBox or on real hardware). > > The image is originally created on hardware with MP acpi (not virtualization). > > qemu-kvm 0.12.5+dfsg-2 > Actually the issue is caused by the Synaptics touchpad driver binding to the PS/2 mouse device in qemu.
I have no idea how PS/2 devices are detected but the one present in qemu is misdetected as a synaptics touchapd by the Synaptics driver for Windows. As a workaround I have patched my qemu to not enable the PS/2 mouse device. Thanks Michal
