[Qemu-devel] [Bug 639651] Re: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL booting WIndows XP with Synaptics driver installed

[Jes Sorensen]

Just to be sure, you are not using the virtio-blk driver for Windows
here?

I have seen similar crashes with the older version of virtio-blk when used on
recent versions of KVM.

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DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL booting WIndows XP with Synaptics driver installed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/639651
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Status in QEMU: New
Status in Debian GNU/Linux: New

Bug description:
Positng the issue here since I did not get any reply on the ML.

I was trying to update some windows XP (SP3) images in kvm.

It worked fine several times but last time I added mass storage
drivers to sysprep and now on the second boot after reseal (the first
is mini-setup) I get a BSOD with message
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. 

It turns out that the error is unrelated to storage drivers. It is triggered by 
Synaptics driver installing for the PS2 mouse in kvm (which does not happen in 
VirtualBox or on real hardware).

The image is originally created on hardware with MP acpi (not virtualization).

qemu-kvm                  0.12.5+dfsg-2