From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cole Robinson Subject: Re: Problem after update windows VirtIO drivers Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:13:00 -0500 Message-ID: <52A6244C.20101@redhat.com> References: <1386600306.2456.15.camel@cmar-laptop.lan> <52A5F3AC.3090705@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Alon Levy , Carlos Rodrigues , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Vadim Rozenfeld Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:31628 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755957Ab3LIUNE (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:13:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <52A5F3AC.3090705@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/09/2013 11:45 AM, Alon Levy wrote: > 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? >> > > 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) > I'd also recommend filing a bug at Fedora->virtio-win component in bugzilla.redhat.com where many of the windows guys keep watch. - Cole