Re: [Qemu-devel] Fwd: Problem booting 32 bit guest on 64 bit host using kvm

[Gleb Natapov]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 10:26:55PM +1000, Mark Blakeney wrote:
> FYI, I just discovered that I can make my Solaris guest boot every
> time in kvm by specifying an interactive boot at the boot prompt and
> then just hand stepping through the default prompts. Presumably there
> is a timing issue in the guest boot sequence which kvm is exposing
> when running natively on my new current gen cpu + ssd box. It seems
> slowing down the boot artificially by hand stepping, or by running
> with -no-kvm, or by running on my older hardware + hdd, avoids this.
> 
Interesting. Thanks for the update and report back if you will find
something new please.

> So sorry but this seems likely a bug in the old Solaris 2.5.1 guest OS
> when running on modern fast hardware(?). Now I know about this
> interactive boot option I can just use it to boot each time. There are
> only 3 quick prompts so it is not really a bother.
> 
> The guest runs fine in kvm after booting so this speed related bug is
> only during the initial boot sequence.
> 
> Thanks for your help.

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                        Gleb.