On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 01:22:34PM +0300, Sergey Kovalev wrote:
> # Abstract
> 
> After `xl save win win.mem` and then `xl restore win.hvm win.mem`
> the Windows 10 VM remain frozen for about a minute. After the
> minute it becomes responsive.
> 
> During the freeze the OS remains semi-responsive: on `Ctrl+Shift+Esc`
> press the wait cursor appears (blue circle indicator).
> 
> This is an intermittent fault been reproduced only twice.
> 
> # Technical notes
> 
> It have been noticed that there were no timer interrupts during
> the freeze.
> 
> zaytse...@gmail.com has debugged the received Xen state file and
> noticed that the flag HPET_TN_PERIODIC been set after unfreeze.
> 
> Based on that he provided two Python scripts: one to check the
> value and one to patch it.
> 
> Both "broken" state files we have been detected and patched
> successfully.
> 
> # Other information
> 
> ## Target machine
> 
> ```bash
> $ uname -a
> Linux localhost 5.4.0-66-generic #74~18.04.2-Ubuntu SMP
> Fri Feb 5 11:17:31 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> ```
> 
> ## Xen version
> 
> Build from source on tag RELEASE-4.12.4
> 
> ## OS version
> 
> * Windows 10 build 1803 x64

Do you also run other versions of Windows, and in which case I assume
you have never seen the issue on those, or it's this specific version
the only that you use?

Thanks, Roger.

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