[vfio-users] UEFI Win7 VM randomly does not start

Blank Field ihatethisfield at gmail.com
Sat Oct 17 08:52:29 UTC 2015


What is your hardware?
On Oct 17, 2015 11:51 AM, "Alexander Petrenz" <petrenz.a at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have the problem that my UEFI VM for a Windows 7 guest does not always
> starts properly. When it doesn´t work I have to try it again and finally it
> will work after something between 3 to 6 attempts. The only error message
> is:
> qemu-system-x86_64: Guest moved used index from 13 to 0
>
> But the numbers will differ at each attempt.
>
> You can find my start up script here: http://pastebin.com/yWubnz9Y
>
> cat /proc/cmdline
> BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux-vfio
> root=UUID=98f9455d-0b0a-4911-817f-12aab5feddbe rw quiet intel_iommu=on
> hugepagesz=2MB hugepages=4100 pci-stub.ids=10de:1187,10de:0e0a,1102:0012,8
> 086:1c2d,1b6f:7023 pcie_acs_override=downstream
>
> Kernel Version: 4.1.5-1-vfio
> Qemu Version: 2.4
> dmesg output: http://pastebin.com/4B5hRFcM
>
> Month ago I had a seabios setup and I didn´t had this issue there. I
> switch to UEFI so I don´t need the i915 arbiter patch.
>
> Anyway if the VM started, it´s very stable. No crashes or similar.
>
> Does someone have any idea why those crashes happen or how I could fix
> this?
>
> Regards
> Alex
>
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