I've got WinXP running on the 2647 kernel on FC6. The guest runs well, but the install was more than a little challenging. I ended up installing the guest using QEMU (which was tremendously slow) but once the install had completed the guest runs well.
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 22:04 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 04:51:46PM -0400, Orathai Sukwong wrote:
Hi,
I've tried to bring the 32bit WinXP guest up on the Fedore Core 6-xen. My xen release is 2.6.17-1.2647.fc6xen and version #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 13:26:53 EDT 2006. xen_caps are xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p. My machine is running the Fedora Core 6 i686. The problem is that when I booted the WinXP guest, it crashed. Here are some debugging info:
(XEN) (GUEST: 5) unsupported PCI BIOS function 0x0E (XEN) (GUEST: 5) int13_harddisk: function 15, unmapped device for ELDL=81 (XEN) 0f 6f, This opcode isn't handled yet (XEN) handle_mmio: failed to decode instruction (XEN) mmio opcode: va 0xf81393c0, gpa 0xf00783c0, len 3: 0f 6f 06 (XEN) domain_crash_sync called from platform.c:869 (XEN) Domain 5 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#0: (XEN) ----[ Xen-3.0-unstable Not tainted ]---- (XEN) CPU: 0 (XEN) EIP: 0008:[<bf902854>] (XEN) EFLAGS: 00010202 CONTEXT: hvm (XEN) eax: f81393c0 ebx: e10875cc ecx: 0000002a edx: 00000008 (XEN) esi: f81393c0 edi: e10875d2 ebp: f86440d4 esp: f86440c8 (XEN) cr0: 80010031 cr3: 001f9ea0 (XEN) ds: 0023 es: 0023 fs: 0030 gs: 0000 ss: 0010 cs: 0008 (XEN) sh_update_paging_modes: postponing determination of shadow mode (XEN) (file=hvm.c, line=195) Allocated port 3 for hvm. (XEN) vmx_do_launch(): GUEST_CR3<=001f9ea0, HOST_CR3<=2bd03000 (XEN) (file=event_channel.c, line=176) EVTCHNOP failure: domain 0, error -22, line 176
domid: 6 qemu: the number of cpus is 1 shared page at pfn:1ffff, mfn: 21d54 buffered io page at pfn:1fffd, mfn: 21d56 char device redirected to /dev/pts/2 bind interdomain ioctl error 22
Any ideas what went wrong? Please help me. Thank you.
This is a bug in the HVM emulation layer. In some cases it needs to emulate instructions, but it looks like WinXp issues one it was unable to emulate yet. I checked upstream xen-unstable.hg repository there's still no support for this. Please enter a bugzilla ticket with the details from this mail so the problem can be tracked. I'm afraid there's no immediate work around I can think of to make this work, so you might want to try Windows 2k instead which I believe has been getting more upstream testing than XP
Regards, Dan.
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