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From: Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Problem after update windows VirtIO drivers
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 21:25:32 +1100
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On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 12:16 +0000, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
> I send in attachment the screen image of blue screen.
> 
> About other question, with fresh installation with version 0.52 of
> drivers, and block device as ide, the reboot works properly.
> 
> Regards,
> 
CC'ing Mike

Mike do we have any backward compatibility issues,
related to the latest driver virtio-win drivers
on RHEL5.8 host?

Thanks,
Vadim.

> On 12/09/2013 04:45 PM, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > After update the VirtIO drivers for Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit,
when
> > i reboot virtual machine, the windows OS get stuck on loading bar.
> > 
> > The VirtIO drivers is the latest stable that i made the download
from
> >
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/stable/virtio-win-0.1-74.iso
> > 
> > And i use version 1.2.1 of kvm and the OS of host is Centos 5.8.
> > 
> > I try to install a fresh and clean version same Windows and same
drivers
> > and get the same problem. With virtio-win-0.1-52 version of drivers,
the
> > windows server works properly.
> > 
> > I will use the oldest stable version of drivers, but anyone knows
some
> > issue with latest drivers?
> > 
> [VR]
> Hi Carlos,
> Could you please post the QEMU command line as well as output
> from 'info pci'
> 
> I have an issue that also existed with 0.65, on windows 7 64 bit: when
I
> have qxl enabled as well I get a crash shortly after initialization of
> qxl (at the login screen) in a memory management function of the qxl
> driver, indicating something overwrote parts of the allocators
> accounting structures. When I disable the virtio driver (leaving the
> virtio device) the problem goes away.
> 
> Vadim, is this a known problem? (sorry for hijacking the thread)
> 
> Does it crash into BSOD? Can you share the crash dump file?
> 
> Best regards,
> Vadim.
> 
> 
> > Regards,
> > 
>