[Fedora-xen] Qemu goes bonkers - again!

[John Lagrue]

I had an installation of WinXP that took a long time to install but
finally had running fairly well runing from a commandline call to
qemu-kvm  (though I never have got the hang of how the network the
damned thing!)

But then, after a recent update, qemu-kvm would crash every time I
tried to run  it. OK I thought, there's something new, so I tried to
create a new VM.

I still can't get anything useful to build with WinXP from
virt-manager, but did manage to get it to instal by running qemu-kvm
from the command line again. And it works fine. Right up to the moment
I install XP SP 2.

After that, all I get is this:

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# qemu-kvm -localtime -no-acpi -m 512  CC3_1
Could not configure '/dev/rtc' to have a 1024 Hz timer. This is not a fatal
error, but for better emulation accuracy either use a 2.6 host Linux kernel or
type 'echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq' as root.
unhandled vm exit:  0x3f60101
rax 00000000000000b5 rbx 00000000000000b5 rcx 0000000000000000 rdx
000000008053f118
rsi 0000000080551920 rdi 0000000000000000 rsp 00000000804d7000 rbp
000000008053f0a0
r8  0000000000000000 r9  0000000000000000 r10 0000000000000000 r11
0000000000000000
r12 0000000000000000 r13 0000000000000000 r14 0000000000000000 r15
0000000000000000
rip 000000008053f620 rflags 00000002
cs 0008 (00000000/ffffffff p 1 dpl 0 db 1 s 1 type b l 0 g 0 avl 0)
ds 0023 (00000000/ffffffff p 1 dpl 3 db 1 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 1 avl 0)
es 0023 (00000000/ffffffff p 1 dpl 3 db 1 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 1 avl 0)
ss 0010 (00000000/ffffffff p 1 dpl 0 db 1 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 1 avl 0)
fs 0030 (ffdff000/00001fff p 1 dpl 0 db 1 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 1 avl 0)
gs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
tr 0028 (80042000/000020ab p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type 9 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
ldt 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 0 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type 0 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
gdt 8003f000/3ff
idt 8003f400/7ff
cr0 8001003d cr2 0 cr3 a4a000 cr4 20 cr8 0 efer 0
Aborted
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I've reinstalled this three times, and it happens every time. Does
this mean anything to anyone?

JDL