On Fri, 2016-03-25 at 01:10 +0300, Blank Field wrote: > Hello again, fellow subscribers. > > Since 4.3.X kernels I am experiencing some strange problems with disk > IO. > > I am passing through the whole /dev/sda(since i also dualboot into > that system for some weird software or hardware) to my VM, and since > recent versions of kernel the VM gets stuck in an endless loop, > consuming 100% one core. > > The ISA debug console says stuff like: > PartitionValidMbr: Bad MBR partition size EndingLBA(D99299D3) > > LastLBA(31FFF) > > The thing is that the disk in question has nothing to do with MBR, it > is formatted into GPT. > I can't pinpoint the source of that weird D99299D3 number. > > That kind of error happens for every partition detected. > > Device Start End Sectors Size Type > /dev/sda1 2048 1171875000 1171872953 558.8G Microsoft basic > data > /dev/sda2 1171875840 1172080639 204800 100M EFI System > /dev/sda3 1172080640 1172342783 262144 128M Microsoft reserved > /dev/sda4 1172342784 1465145343 292802560 139.6G Microsoft basic > data > /dev/sda5 1465145344 1953525134 488379791 232.9G Microsoft basic > data > That looks like a valid partition table for me. Moreover, the fact > that i am able to boot an UEFI-capable system bare-metal confirms > that > the partition table is correct. > > I remember i've seen some related messages on the list in february or > something, but they only stated the existence of this error. > > Have any of you seen stuff like that? If so, how do you live with it? > > Maybe i should write to edk2-devel mailing list for this, because it > isn't much related to VFIO, but normal qemu folks rarely sacrifice > the > whole disk to a VM. > > Versions: > QEMU emulator version 2.4.1 (qemu-2.4.1-7.fc23) > kernel 4.4.5-300.fc23.x86_64(doesn't matter much from 4.3.X) > edk2.git-0-20160311.b1594.gf6326d1.x86_64 >
A lot of people had problems booting with OVMF with kernels 4.2 and 4.3. It's fixed for myself and I think most others with 4.4, but I think you may need fairly recent qemu and ovmf versions. Looks like your OVMF is new enough if that date means what I think it does, but you should try upgrading to qemu 2.5. _______________________________________________ vfio-users mailing list vfio-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users
