[Bug 589063] Re: Windows Server 2008 won't boot with more than 4 vCPUs

2010-12-15 Thread Troy Ready
@Serge Sorry for my long delay in responding. I still haven't had a chance to test a 6 core Linux guest (the hardware in question doesn't offer me much opportunity for downtime). Hopefully I'll be able to do it this weekend. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 589063] Re: Windows Server 2008 won't boot with more than 4 vCPUs

2010-08-29 Thread Troy Ready
Excellent work, and thank you Nigel!!! I just added your PPA to our dual quad-processor system, and successfully booted a Server 2008 VM with 6 vcpus attached. Everything appears to be working well, and I'll be leaving the PPA in please until it's SRU'd or the next LTS comes out. -- Windows Serv

[Bug 589063] Re: Windows Server 2008 won't boot with more than 4 vCPUs

2010-06-15 Thread Troy Ready
Anyone else able to reproduce this bug? I just checked and made sure I had the latest BIOS version for the motherboard, and I do. I'm not sure how I can help debug this -- I presume its a KVM issue, but am I wrong? Is it the system passing along bad ACPI info directly to the VM? I would just blam

[Bug 589063] Re: Windows Server 2008 won't boot with more than 4 vCPUs

2010-06-07 Thread Troy Ready
Just updated the system kernel (2.6.32-22), and found no change in the status. I took a screenshot of the exact error. "The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please contact your system vendor for an updated BIOS." ** Attachment added: "vCPU Error.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.n

[Bug 589063] Re: Windows Server 2008 won't boot with more than 4 vCPUs

2010-06-03 Thread Troy Ready
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49595734/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49595735/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49595736/Dependencies.txt ** A

[Bug 589063] [NEW] Windows Server 2008 won't boot with more than 4 vCPUs

2010-06-03 Thread Troy Ready
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: qemu-kvm Windows Server 2008 is loading fine in KVM on my computer when I allocate 4 vCPUs to it (on an 8 core host). When I allocate 5 or more, it blue-screens at start with an error about the ACPI capabilities with a suggestion to update the machine bio